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S W E E T 1 6 SNACKING NEWS October 2018 Abdallah Candies Introduces Retreats Abdallah Candies Retreats are bite-sized chocolates packaged in personal, portable, resealable stand-up candy pouches. Their perfect size allows you to indulge, enjoy and to escape from the moment. Each three-serving bag of Retreats is brightly colored. They are available in nine varieties. They include four amazing sorbets – Rasp- berry, Orange, Pina Colada and Lemon — which are uniquely fresh, smooth and dipped in dark bittersweet chocolate; two incredible sea salt caramels – one milk chocolate and one dark chocolate — made with the famous Abdallah caramel center; and three butter toffees – English, Almond and Cashew — each with buttery flavor and sur- prisingly delicate crunch. The bite-sized pieces are perfect for the multi-portion package. Designed for personal consumption, Retreats are for that "just for you" moment. Retreats have been well received by retailers and consumers alike. Each package weighs 2.75 to 3 ounces. Retreats' suggested retail is $2.99, and they come in 12-count boxes. Abdallah Candies is a fourth generation, family-owned company producing quality confections since 1909. Stop by the company's booth to taste the new Retreats as well as many other fine quality confec- tions. Abdallah Candies 800.348.7328 www.abdallahcandies.com New Flavors from The ICEE Company This year The ICEE Company is debuting a variety of exciting new flavors and equipment never before seen in the frozen beverage cat- egory. The ICEE Company has added a sour, spicy twist to the traditional flavor lineup with the new ICEE Warheads ® and Warheads Hot- heads ® flavors. The new flavors include ICEE Warheads Water- melon, Warheads Hotheads Lava Lime, Warheads Hotheads Piping Hot Pineapple and Warheads Hotheads Molten Mango. The sour and tart flavors of the top-selling Warheads candy are now available as a sweet and spicy frozen treat. The ICEE Company is reinventing conventional flavors and introducing Handcrafted Chill™ , a new line of craft beverages with a fresh contemporary look. Handcrafted Chill is a flavor lineup of a variety of agua fresca flavors, teas and lemonades. You can expect to see flavors like Watermelon Lime Fresca, Blood Orange Lemonade and Orange Guava Green Tea. The ICEE Company 800.423.3872 www.icee.com Wildmade Introduces New Line of Organic Fruit Rolls Veggie-Go's has launched a new line of Wildmade Organic Fruit Rolls with three flavors, including Grape, Tropical Fruit and Fruit Punch. Each Fruit Roll has a half serving of fruit per roll with no added sugar and is also USDA certified or- ganic and non-GMO. The Wildmade brand brings another better-for you-op- tion to the fruit snacks category, with the same hand- crafted quality and simple ingredients fans have come love from Veggie-Go's. Wildmade and Veggie-Go's full line of better-for-you fruit and veggie snacks are now available nationwide. Veggie Go's Wildmade 888.297.9426 www.wildmadesnacks.com Love It! Snack Bars Offer Real Fruit Cherryvale Farms, Inc., makers of Everything But The…™ baking mixes and Instant Indulgence ® individual mug cake mixes, is launch- ing Love It! ® snack bars. Just a little sweet, bursting with fruit and drizzled with vanilla or chocolate icing, Love It! snack bars are packed with whole grains and real fruit flavor. Available in three flavors — Banana Chocolate, Blueberry Lemon and Cherry Vanilla —Love It! bars are the first move outside the baking aisle for the brand. Cherryvale Farms Love It! bars are plant-based, Non-GMO Project verified, egg free, dairy free, nut free and free from preservatives and artificial colors and flavors. Cherryvale Farms is a family business, founded by a daughter-fa- ther team who drew inspiration from their own small farm in Santa Cruz, California, to create baking mixes everyone can enjoy at home. Today, the company offers three product lines, including Instant Indulgence microwave mug cake mixes and Love It! Whole Grain Snack Bars. Love It! Snack Bars 310.910.1124 www.cherryvalefarms.com Sweet Shop Fit: Organic Chocolate Snacks Sweet Shop Candies, Inc. has unveiled a new healthy-ingredient collection of organic choco- late snacks under its new Sweet Shop Fit ® brand. Healthy snacks and on-the-go snack alter- natives have been rising in demand over the past five years. The Sweet Shop Fit brand meets this popular request by including new health and wellness-oriented options featuring organic ingredients, super foods, reduced sugar and protein-rich ingredients. New Sweet Shop Fit products include: Organic Dark Goji Berry Crunch Bar and Milk Chocolate Nut Bar, both made with organic ingredients. New Sweet Shop Fit will join the Sweet Shop Candies, Inc. family of brands: Sweet Shop USA, Mrs. Weinstein's Toffee and Price's Fine Chocolates. All-natural and made with Belgian chocolate, Sweet Shop USA products are OU kosher certified and handcrafted in small batches to ensure the highest quality possible. The Sweet Shop USA collection in- cludes 80 truffle creations, nine signature toffees and toffee corn, snack mixes, cake bites and many chocolate-dipped treats. Sweet Shop Candies, Inc. 903.575.5512 www.sweetshopusa.com WOLO Launches New Protein Bar for Travelers WOLO WanderSnacks ® , has launched the WOLO Wan- derBar™, a protein bar designed specifically for travel. The WOLO WanderBar was developed with the needs of savvy travelers in mind. Unlike most protein bars, each WanderBar features two layers comprised of a crispy, crunchy bottom topped with a soft, velvety layer of nougat that's sprinkled with premium chocolate chips. The bar's formulation ensures there's no sticky mess or crumbling and allows for easy tearing and sharing. WOLO WanderSnacks 844.477.5695 www.wolosnacks.com Dairy-Free Premium Desserts with Premium Texture McConnell's Dairy-Free Frozen Desserts are made from a proprietary blend (McConnell's P3™) of 100 percent mi- cronized pea protein. Pea protein is a sustainable protein derived from yellow peas, the very same plant-based protein found in many of the food industry's cutting-edge vegetarian and dairy-free milk substitutes. The result? McConnell's Dairy-Free Frozen Desserts line, made from a base that is both neutral in flavor and shares the mouthfeel, and many other characteristics, found in McConnell's super-smooth, 18.5 percent butterfat ice creams. McConnell's dairy-free is also lower in fat and sugar, cholesterol-free and non-GMO. McConnell's Dairy-Free Frozen Desserts are launching with five flavors, including classic Dark Choco- late Chip, Toasted Coconut Almond Chip, classic Cookies & Cream, Turkish Coffee and Eureka Lemon & Marionberries, with more to come. McConnell's Fine Ice Creams 805.963.8813 www.mcconnells.com MadeGood Unveils New Cookies, Granola MadeGood ® has added two new product lines, Soft Baked Mini Cookies and Crispy Light Granola. These snacks and cereals are additions to the MadeGood line of school-safe products that include Granola Bars, Gra- nola Minis and Crispy Squares. They're easy and con- venient but also safe for nut-free classrooms, gluten free, certified vegan, organic, non-GMO and kosher parve, and they contain a full serving of vegetables. The new MadeGood Soft Baked Mini Cookies are soft and chewy cookies are available in Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Banana, Apple Cinnamon and Double Chocolate flavors. MadeGood Foods 416.360.8200 www.madegoodfoods.com

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