American Food Company (AFC) was established in 1975 and started out 1as a humble and modest soy products manufacturer in Alhambra, CA (40 minutes east of Los Angeles, CA) producing roughly 300 pounds of high quality tofu daily. The popularity of AFC tofu soon spread throughout Southern California due to the exceptional taste and texture unparalleled to other soy manufacturers of its time. The Asian-American community was hungry for authentic soy products and with high demands from its loyal customers AFC soon completed research and development on other specialty soy products such as baked tofu, soy pudding, and beancurd sheets (yuba). Within the next 20 years, the company would become the preeminent tofu producer on the west coast United States.
Today, AFC produces more than 8 tons of tofu daily along with its other popular products, baked tofu and soy pudding. The AFC brand of products can be found in both Asian-American and American mainstream regional and national retail supermarket chains, health food stores, and also used in nationwide restaurant chains and other food manufacturers as part of their ingredient base. With hundreds of soy product varieties to choose from, AFC Trading & Wholesale is proud to serve and act as a ‘one-stop soy shop’.
From humble beginnings, the company now has diverse product lines to meet the needs of the communities it services; and from a few items to the present day inventory of over several hundred items, AFC has become the premier brand for soy products in the Asian-American soy food industry and continues to be one of the largest and oldest manufacturer of soy products established in the United States.
