35+
Years growing herbs
24h
Field to pack
900+
Acres in Mexico and USA
20
Herb varieties
2
U.S. distribution hubs
Same fields, same cold chain, same certifications. When you get your fresh herbs from us, you are buying directly from the grower — what changes is how we pack it.
Capabilities
What began as a family-owned business has evolved into a global supplier with operations in the United States and Mexico, including local production in Texas to keep us close to key markets.
To strengthen year-round supply and expand product diversity, we partner with trusted growers in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the United States. Everything rests on the same foundation: food safety, traceability, good agricultural and manufacturing practices, social responsibility and sustainable farming.
"We don't just supply herbs — we build relationships that grow over time."
Oregano processing at our Texas facility
Local production
Our own facility lets us control the last and most delicate step ourselves — sorting, packing and cooling under GMP, hours from the hubs that ship to your dock.
Corporate social responsibility
True growth is only possible when our people, our communities and our planet thrive together — and buyers increasingly need that documented, not just stated.
The herbs
We grow and source a wide range of fresh herbs, running distinct processes for conventional and organic while keeping quality, freshness and care consistent across every product.
Your market
Retail packaging
Designed to support merchandising and consumer convenience.
Custom sizes and formats available upon request.
Retail packaging options
We collaborate closely with partners to develop packaging that aligns with their brand, program requirements and market needs — including meal-kit and private-label formats.
Foodservice packaging
Built for kitchen workflows and high-volume handling, from field to walk-in.
Custom weights and mixed-herb cases available upon request.
Foodservice packaging options
We build case configurations around your menu and your route — single herbs, mixed cases and program-specific weights.
35+
Years of hands-on growing, sourcing and distribution
24h
From harvest to packed and ready to ship
2
Refrigerated hubs in Texas and Florida
IATA
Certified freight forwarder for fresh produce
Our documentation is audit-ready. Send us your supplier questionnaire and you get a complete packet back — not a list of exceptions.
GFSI-benchmarked food safety and lot-level traceability across every operation, so a question about one case can be answered to the field.
USDA Organic certification through Oregon Tilth, with current certificates on file for your labelling and compliance records.
At a glance
From one case back to one field
Company
June 18, 2026 · Gourmet Xpress
Behind every fresh herb program is an entire operation focused on quality, timing and consistency.
For more than 35 years, Gourmet Xpress has supported retail, foodservice and distribution partners across the United States with premium fresh herbs through vertically integrated operations in Texas, Florida and Mexico.
As a company dedicated to growing, sourcing, packing and delivering fresh conventional and organic herbs, our commitment has always remained the same:
Most herb programs fail in the handoffs — between the grower who cuts the product, the packer who boxes it and the carrier who moves it. Every handoff adds hours, and hours are what fresh herbs cannot spare. Owning the fields, the packing lines and the refrigerated hubs removes those handoffs from the equation.
In practice, that means one lot code that follows the product from the field block to your dock, one food safety system audited as a whole rather than facility by facility, and one team accountable when a spec changes mid-season.
Three shifts are reshaping herb sourcing right now. First, buyers are consolidating: fewer suppliers, deeper programs, and far more scrutiny of who actually grows the product. Second, organic keeps outgrowing conventional in the category, which makes segregated organic lines and current certificates a requirement rather than a differentiator. Third, shrink has become a board-level metric — a herb program is now judged on what survives to the shelf, not on what left the field.
The suppliers that answer those pressures are the ones that can show their process, not just quote a price.
Key takeaways
As we continue growing, we're excited to begin sharing more about our farms, our operations, our people, and the processes behind fresh herb production and distribution — including the that back every claim.
Thank you to our customers, partners and team members who have been part of this journey.
Yes. Every variety in our catalogue is available conventional or organic, grown and packed on segregated lines under USDA Organic certification issued by Oregon Tilth.
Retail, foodservice, distribution and meal-kit programs across the United States, shipped from our refrigerated hubs in Dallas and Miami.
Building or re-bidding a herb program this season? Tell us the formats and volumes and we will come back with a spec.
Premium fresh herbs. Certified quality. Nationwide distribution.
Growing practices
July 9, 2026 · Gourmet Xpress
Precision irrigation systems are transforming the way fresh herbs are grown, improving consistency, efficiency and overall product quality.
At Gourmet Xpress, our growing operations incorporate:
In fresh herb production, small variations in moisture and nutrient management directly impact flavor, aroma, shelf life, product consistency and overall quality. These technologies deliver water and nutrients straight to the root zone, creating cleaner, more stable and more efficient growing conditions.
By implementing controlled irrigation and growing systems, we support fresher herbs with extended shelf life, more consistent product quality, reduced waste at the retail and foodservice level, improved plant development and more reliable year-round supply.
Postharvest research is consistent on one point: the condition of the plant at the moment of cutting sets the ceiling for everything that follows. Water stress, uneven nutrition and excess leaf moisture all shorten shelf life long before a box reaches a cooler. No packaging technology recovers what the field gave away.
That is why we treat irrigation as a quality control, not an input cost. Filtered water reduces the salts and contaminants that accumulate in the root zone; drip lines keep foliage dry, which lowers the microbial pressure that drives decay in leafy herbs; and controlled environments hold the plant inside a narrower band of temperature and humidity through the whole cycle.
Controlled-environment production is the fastest-moving part of the category, and for a buyer its real value is calendar coverage: greenhouse and shade-net structures extend the growing window on both ends of the season and cushion the weather events that used to produce gaps and spot-market pricing. Combined with growing regions in Texas, Florida and Mexico, that is what makes a 52-week program realistic.
Key takeaways
At Gourmet Xpress, we believe agricultural innovation begins by controlling the details that impact quality the most.
Indirectly, yes. Stable moisture and nutrition in the root zone keep the plant from swinging between stress and surplus, which is what flattens aroma and produces inconsistent leaves.
Certified organic production has its own requirements for substrate and inputs. Our organic volume is grown and packed on certified, segregated lines, and the certificate is available on request.
Want the growing and irrigation detail for a specific variety? We can walk your quality team through it.
Agricultural innovation, starting with the details.
Postharvest
July 24, 2026 · Gourmet Xpress
Harvest timing is the variable most fresh herb buyers never see.
Every quality issue that shows up at store level or in a restaurant kitchen had a starting point — not transportation, not the packing shed, but the time that passes between harvest and pre-cooling in the cold room.
Fresh herbs begin losing moisture and aromatic compounds within minutes of harvest. The longer that window stays open before product reaches the cold room, the faster respiration rates increase, accelerating wilting and decay — regardless of how well the plant was grown.
At Gourmet Xpress, harvest is treated with rigorous precision, not as a routine agricultural task:
This is where most programs quietly lose shelf life. For the majority of culinary herbs, storage close to 0°C (32°F) is what protects quality, and the difference is measurable: postharvest guidance from UC Davis puts expected shelf life at around three weeks at 0°C versus about two weeks at 5°C (41°F).
Basil is the exception that ruins mixed loads. It is chilling sensitive and is damaged below roughly 10°C (50°F), so the same cooler that extends parsley and mint will blacken basil. Running basil warm and the rest of the catalogue cold — and keeping them apart in transit — is a discipline, not a detail.
Shrink is rarely caused by one dramatic failure. It is the sum of a warm hour in the field, a mixed-temperature trailer and a delayed cross-dock, each of which quietly spends days of remaining shelf life. Because those days are spent before the product is ever displayed, the loss shows up in the store and the cause stays invisible upstream.
For our retail and foodservice partners, this translates directly into extended shelf life on arrival, reduced shrink at store level, and predictable quality across every shipment and every season.
Key takeaways
Consistency is not a promise — it's a fact, the result of discipline applied at every growing stage, from seeding to the moment of harvest.
As close to immediately as the operation allows. Our protocol moves product from the field to cold storage and pre-cooling right after cutting, before respiration accelerates.
Almost always chilling injury. Basil is damaged below about 10°C (50°F), so a trailer set for leafy greens will destroy it while protecting everything around it.
Comparing herb suppliers on shelf life? Ask us for arrival specs by variety and format.
This is how Gourmet Xpress protects quality before it ever leaves the field.
Miami hub
(305) 680-0681
Refrigerated warehouse serving the U.S. East Coast, Canada and export markets.
Food safety team
Our food safety team is on call 24/7. Need certificates, spec sheets or a supplier questionnaire completed? Mention it in your message and we'll route it directly.
Legal
These terms govern the use of this website and any commercial relationship with Gourmet Xpress LLC. Last updated August 2026.
This website is operated by Gourmet Xpress LLC, a grower, packer and distributor of fresh culinary herbs, with distribution hubs at 4845 W Royal Ln, Irving, Texas 75063 and in Miami, Florida. Throughout this document, "Gourmet Xpress", "we" and "us" refer to Gourmet Xpress LLC; "you" refers to any visitor, customer or prospective customer.
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Product descriptions, formats, varieties, availability and images shown on this site are indicative and may change without notice; fresh produce is subject to seasonality, harvest conditions and crop availability. Nothing on this site constitutes a binding offer to sell.
Prices, volumes, packaging specifications, lead times and delivery terms are confirmed exclusively in a written quote, purchase order confirmation or supply agreement issued by Gourmet Xpress. Where such a document exists, its terms prevail over this website in the event of any inconsistency.
References to PrimusGFS, USDA Organic, HACCP, GAP, GMP or any other scheme describe certifications held by Gourmet Xpress or its partner operations at the time of publication. Certificates carry their own scope and expiry dates. Current certificates, audit scores and expiry dates are available on request and should be relied upon in place of any summary shown on this site.
Fresh herbs are perishable products. Our responsibility for cold chain, handling and product condition extends to the delivery point and terms agreed in the applicable order. Once received, storage, handling, further processing and use are the responsibility of the buyer, who is expected to follow the temperature and handling guidance provided with the product.
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How Gourmet Xpress LLC collects, uses and protects the information you share with us. Last updated August 2026.
This policy explains how Gourmet Xpress LLC ("Gourmet Xpress", "we") handles personal information collected through this website, our commercial forms and our business correspondence. It applies to visitors, customers, prospective customers, suppliers and applicants.
We only collect what we need to respond to you and to operate as a supplier:
We do not knowingly collect information from children, and we do not ask for or store payment card numbers through this website.
We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not use the data submitted through our forms for unrelated marketing lists.
When you check the authorization box in our form, you consent to being contacted about your inquiry. Beyond that, we process information because it is necessary to perform or prepare a contract with you, to comply with a legal obligation, or on the basis of our legitimate interest in operating our business. You may withdraw consent at any time as described in section 8.
We share information only with parties that help us operate, and only to the extent needed: email and website hosting providers, transport and cold-chain carriers for deliveries, certification bodies and auditors where a documented traceability request requires it, and professional advisors. These parties are required to protect the information and to use it only for the purpose we specify. We may also disclose information where required by law or valid legal process.
Gourmet Xpress operates growing and packing operations in Mexico and works with partner growers in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Where information is transferred outside the United States for these operational purposes, we apply the same standard of protection described in this policy.
Inquiries that do not lead to a commercial relationship are kept only as long as needed to follow up, and then deleted. Commercial and food safety records are retained for the period required by applicable regulation and by our certification schemes. We apply reasonable technical and organizational safeguards, including encrypted transmission of the site and access limited to personnel who need it. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Subject to applicable law, you may ask us to access, correct, update or delete your personal information, withdraw a consent you previously gave, or object to a particular use. Write to sales@gourmetxpressllc.us with the subject "Privacy request". We will respond within the timeframe required by law, and we may need to verify your identity first. Residents of jurisdictions with specific privacy statutes may have additional rights, including the right not to be discriminated against for exercising them.
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We may update this policy to reflect changes in our operations or in applicable law. The date at the top of this page indicates the current version.
Gourmet Xpress LLC · 4845 W Royal Ln, Irving, Texas 75063 · sales@gourmetxpressllc.us · (469) 565-2241
Dallas and Miami hubs · next-day parcel delivery · organic and conventional.
