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Benicie Jeantel will tell you how she likes her soup. She doesn't have a special name for the chicken and vegetable stews she makes for lunch, that she shares with relatives, young and old. She uses carrots, celery, onions, and she loves garlic, but often she'll throw in maybe one white potato — not too many — to give the broth a hit of something more.

White sweet potatoes aren't consistently available in area supermarkets. But Produce Junction, the regional grocery chain that focuses on fruits, vegetables, and flowers, has been honing its specialty selection over the last several years to serve customers like Jeantel, a Haitian immigrant seeking familiar ingredients that can be harder to find beyond ethnic markets. This November, the chain's Glenside market has been stocking Thai eggplants, cactus pears, rambutan, dragon fruit, kabocha squash, chayotes, and Indian bitter melons, to name just a few of the newer items.

This diversity is thanks to demographic change. Immigrants moving to Philadelphia have been a major force behind the city's population growth. According to Census estimates, the immigrant population in the Philadelphia region grew by 20 percent between and In , immigrants accounted for an estimated 10 percent of residents, or roughly , people, in the metropolitan area.

According to a Pew report in June on foreign-born residents in the area during , about two immigrants lived outside the city for every one living in the city. Produce Junction has a location in West Philadelphia, but 10 others in Pennsylvania and six in New Jersey are in the suburbs. Staffers noticed more special orders from immigrant customers, and the company began to expand its efforts from there roughly five years ago.

There are also one store each in Allentown and in Dover. Jeantel, 70, first moved to the United States in