Finding Ecuadorian products while browsing a foreign supermarket is likely to make you connect with your roots and yearn for what you normally buy in the neighborhood store, in big chains, even on the road, and these very products are becoming more and more attractive and consumable internationally. the market.

Bananas for $0.69 a pound or four green ones for $1.99 and even cheeses for more than $30 shine on the shelves of the United States, which is considered the second destination for Ecuador’s non-oil exports, the first being China, then the European Union ( EU ) and Russia, according to data from the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries, for the first quarter of this year.

China surpasses the United States as Ecuador’s trading partner

In its report for the first quarter of non-oil non-mineral exports to the US, the Ecuadorian Federation of Exporters (Fedexpor) puts shrimp in first place with $326 million. Bananas and plantations follow with 160 million dollars. Shipments worth 87 million dollars were recorded in flowers; in fishery products and crustaceans, $53 million; and in fruit 51 million dollars.

That Ecuadorian shrimp shipped to that market is on the shelves at almost $6 to $7 a pound. And the offer presented to North American consumers is also present in bananas, tomatoes and cocoa.

American supermarkets sell shrimp of various sizes. Photo: Courtesy

Save a Lot and CTown Supermarkets are some of the American supermarket chains where you can find Ecuadorian products.

“Fresh tomate de arbol COO ECUADOR” or “green plaintains, product of Ecuador, farm fresh” are on the labels, which also include prices, $3.99 per kilogram of fruit or four or five green bananas for $1.99.

Four units of green plantains are sold for $1.99. Photo: Courtesy

In the case of different brands of tuna, four-packs cost $5.99 and $9.99.

The description is similar for other products, but the price varies per pound, unit or case.