Vita is not just our name it’s also our mission as the process that we give life in the jars that we produce. All those millions of jars full of love that we produce every day are the result of many years of investment in our company Hortena.

As a family-run company Hortena is committed to tradition, but we also strive for constant innovation. You can see clear evidence of this in our product range and with developing our own brand, Vita.

Vita pickles are carefully selected gherkins produced in controlled environment by Hortena. Our gherkins are grown in highest quality soil made with materials that are quality proven, selected, specified and then put into production by the traditional recipe to save the taste that is kept for years. The annual harvest of cucumbers for the popular pickled gherkins starts in June. A job that requires a lot of skill and, above all, a lot of staff. The plants are too sensitive for mechanical harvesting. The workers harvest the vegetables by hand, then the fresh field crops are put into the glass as quickly as possible. A major challenge when processing pickling cucumbers is that it is not possible to preserve the original taste which we think we have achieve it.