Van Holten's Pickles

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Van Holten's
Private
Industry Food processing
Founded 1898
Founder J.G. Van Holten
Headquarters Waterloo, WI
Website Van Holten's Pickles

Van Holten's is an American food processing company located in Waterloo, Wisconsin. The company's primary product is pickled cucumbers, but it is also the inventor of the Pickle in a Pouch and world's largest producer of individually wrapped pickles.

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Food processing transformation of raw ingredients into food, or of food into other forms

Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing includes many forms of processing foods, from grinding grain to make raw flour to home cooking to complex industrial methods used to make convenience foods.

Waterloo, Wisconsin City in Wisconsin, United States

Waterloo is a city in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the census of 2010, the population was 3,333.

Van Holten's is the top-selling individually wrapped pickle brand in the United States.

History

J.G. Van Holten & Son, Inc. was founded by J.G. Van Holten, a Dutch immigrant. Initially, the company began as a vinegar distributor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and soon sauerkraut and pickles were added to the product line. After recognizing a shift in consumer demand for convenience and individually packaged food products they invented the individually wrapped pickle.

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Vinegar liquid consisting mainly of acetic acid and water

Vinegar is an aqueous solution of acetic acid and trace chemicals that may include flavorings. Vinegar typically contains 5–20% acetic acid by volume. Usually the acetic acid is produced by the fermentation of ethanol or sugars by acetic acid bacteria. There are many types of vinegar, depending upon the source materials. Vinegar is now mainly used in the culinary arts: as a flavorful, acidic cooking ingredient, or in pickling.

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In 1992, the company was purchased from the Van Holten family by Milwaukee entrepreneur Jim Byrnes.

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