Unique ingredients – unique healthy grains and chef inspired flavor combinations not found anywhere else. We obtain grains, custom milled flours, ingredients and flavors far ahead of the general bakery industry because of our long term relationships with farmers, mills and suppliers. When they develop new products, they know Raquelitas is the tortilla bakers they should bring it to first because we have the customers who crave unique new products.
Sustainable – we work hard to be kind to our environment and be good stewards of the beautiful Colorado we inherited. How do we do it? Wind generated electricity powers every single volt in our plant. In fact we were the first major tortilla plant in the USA to do this back in 2007, since then saving nearly 464,000 lbs of carbon dioxide being put into our skies. We installed LED bulbs to light our plant and all new motors are high efficiency so we use even less electricity. We recycle 98% of all the paper from our raw material bags and boxes. We require a minimum of 78% recycled content in our outgoing product boxes. 96% of our food processing waste is recycled into livestock feed. We use gentler more environmentally responsible soaps and cleaners to clean the place up every night too! Our monthly 4000 plus pounds of discarded frying oil is turned into bio-diesel fuel that is used along the front range, so if that truck driving in front of you has you thinking of nachos for some strange reason, now you know why!
Locally sourced – Raquelitas is recognized by the Colorado Dept. of Agriculture and Colorado’s Governors office for our commitment to buying Colorado grown and processed ingredients. Our commitment to buying local is unmatched because it is truly a core value of our business. It has been estimated our business positively impacts the lives of over 750 Colorado families due to our high level of local purchases.
Natural/Organic – all of our ingredients at Raquelitas are non gmo or organic, the less processed the better! If we can’t read it, we don’t want you to eat it! We keep it simple. By extensively studying food science, we have developed superior high performance natural recipes utilizing natural ingredients instead of unhealthy chemicals. We have firmly planted our flag in the natural tortilla category, and rightly so as we have been here for decades, long before it was the cool thing to do. To us back then, it was the right thing to do.
Handcrafted – “Raquelitas makes it the way it should be made, not the easy way, the right way” – that’s a quote from one of our competitors. We never take short cuts. For example, our masa making process has been featured on the Food Network because we hand craft our masa the same way it’s been done for thousands of years from cooked whole kernel corn and lime, ground between lava rock stones. Our entire creative process from recipe to baking is to achieve greatness, not low cost.
Flavorful – executed to excite all your culinary senses- sight, smell, taste and mouthfeel. You will remember the aroma and taste of freshly baked artisan bread when you taste one of our flour tortillas. You will remember how simply delicious the robust taste of toasted real corn is when you munch on one of our chips. You will know before your first bite, you have found an entirely different type of tortilla and chip. Raquelitas flavorful tortillas and chips - the perfect canvass for your culinary masterpiece.
Premium Ingredients – only premium brands make the cut here at Raquelitas. Every single ingredient is the highest grade available from around the globe, or from our own back yard. With each premium ingredient purchase we put our checkbook where our mouth is. Nothing in any of our tortillas or chips is bought based on low cost. To be in our box, you have to be the best!
Nutritionally responsible – we engineer tortillas and chips that are simply good for you. Nutritionally deliberate product targets include multi-grain, gluten free, low glycemic, caloric specific, vegan, high fiber, naturally flavored, and naturally sweetened. For example our Nacho Borrachos fried tortilla chips have the same calories as most baked tortilla chips. Our Sandwich Petals are lab verified gluten free, exactly 100 calories and low glycemic enough that Endocrinologists recommend them to newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic patients. You can eat healthy without compromise with Raquelitas tortillas and chips.