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Hot Products GOURMET NEWS DECEMBER 2019 www.gourmetnews.com HOT PRODUCTS 2 0 New Chevre Cream Cheeses from Belle Chevre Belle Chevre has added two savory flavors, Garden Veggie and Roasted Red Pepper, to its line-up of chevre cream cheeses, for a total of eight varieties sold in the dairy. As with all Belle Chevre Cream Cheeses, the new products are handcrafted with all-natural ingredients and have 2.5 times more protein, less fat, less cholesterol and are lower in lactose than regular cream cheese. With all these benefits, Belle Chevre is naturally the better cream cheese. Fromagerie Belle Chevre 256.732.4801 www.bellechevre.com New Snack Mixes from Lehi Valley Lehi Valley Trading Company, a U.S. privately- owned premier snack food company, is introducing gourmet blends snacks. They're offered in three varieties. For Cherry Cocoa Almond Blend, cocoa-roasted almonds are handmade in fired kettles then blended with tart dried cherries and cranberries, semi- sweet chocolate chunks and rounded out with nutty pepitas. Vanilla Cranberry Cashew Blend offers vanilla cranberry cashews handmade in fired kettles then blended with tart dried cranberries, sweet diced coconut, fresh almonds and semi-sweet chocolate chunks; and Cocoa Coconut Almond Blend features cocoa-roasted almonds and cocoa-coconut almonds handmade in fired kettles then blended with sweet coconut chunks, rich and crunchy macadamia nuts and semisweet chocolate chunks. Lehi Valley Trading Company 480.684.1423 www.lehivalley.com NORDI Chocolate Bars from Fazer Fazer launched the NORDI Chocolate brand into the U.S. market earlier this year. Produced in a state-of- the-art production facility in Finland, with meticulous quality control, NORDI is made with only the highest- quality ingredients. NORDI cacao comes from farmers that belong to Fazer's direct sourcing program or a supplier that is certified through the UTZ, Rainforest Alliance or Fairtrade Cocoa Sourcing Programme. NORDI is 100 percent sustainably sourced, with non-GMO ingredients that promote overall health and well-being. There are four flavors: Sea Buckthorn & Salty Caramel, Hazelnut and Campsite Coffee, Raspberry & Tangy Licorice and Smooth and Dark Original. Fazer 978.618.7740 www.fazer.com 3-Year Balsamic from Batistini Farms Batistini Farms is offering Piano #5 Italian Balsmic Vinegar from Modena, Italy. Aged for three years, it's made from 100 percent cooked grape must from Trebbiano grapes. Retailing for $11.95 at B-farms.com, it's packaged in a beautiful gift bag for the holidays. Batistini Farms 336.705.2429 www.b-farms.com Plant-Based Frozen Desserts G.S. Gelato offers plant-based frozen desserts for the foodservice and retail/grocery industries. They're available for private label or controlled brand sales. The company crafts these plant-based desserts with oat milk, cashew milk and coconut milk bases and offers them in a wide variety of award-winning flavors, including Cold Brew Coffee, Strawberry, Cookies No Cream, Chocolate Almond Crunch and more. Some flavors are certified vegan, and all are OU kosher- certified. G.S. Gelato 850.243.5455 www.gsgelato.com Two Flavors of Top Note Sparkling Mixers Top Note Grapefruit Soda is juicy and vivid with a welcome tartness from real 15 percent ruby red grapefruit juice and grapefruit peel. It's refreshingly dry yet has just enough sweetness from cane sugar and the perfect amount of effervescent lift. Top Note Grapefruit is deliciously full bodied, all-natural, non-GMO and gluten free. Top Note Classic Tonic Water is supple, crisp and dry. Delivering a robust lemon/lime quench, there is a gentle sweetness followed by a clean, crisp punch of quinine and bitterness. The balanced flavor of the Classic Tonic highlights the intricate flavors of premium gins and delivers a fruity complexity to a vodka tonic, balanced by the perfect amount of bitterness. Top Note Classic Tonic is highly effervescent and bright, using only 100 percent real quinine for an assertive yet rounded bitterness that will lift any classic tonic highball. It's all natural, non-GMO and gluten free. Top Note www.topnotetonic.com Jarlsberg Cheese Snacks Jarlsberg, a semi-soft cheese, has been a versatile staple in U.S. households and is famous for its original 60-year-old Norwegian recipe. The brand is now offering Jarlsberg Cheese Snacks, individually-wrapped snack- size chunks of the deliciously classic mild, mellow and nutty taste of Jarlsberg cheese in delightfully portable cheese sticks. Jarlsberg Cheese Snacks are naturally lactose and gluten free so the whole family can enjoy. Jarlsberg Cheese Snacks are now available at supermarket retailers nationwide at the suggested retail price range $4.99–$5.99 for the 6-ounce bag. Jarlsberg www.jarlsberg.com New Snacks from IWON Organics IWON Organics is making snacking easy with a grab- and-go collection of snacks that balance carbohydrates, fats and protein ideally in crave-worthy Protein Chips, Protein Stix and Protein Puffs. With flavors including Nacho Cheese, Mesquite BBQ, Sriracha and Sea Salt, these snacks taste like they should only be eaten on a cheat day, but each serving has at least 10g of protein and 5g of fiber with low sugar and about 200 calories. Every IWON Organics snack is made with plant-based protein, and they are organic, gluten free, non-GMO, soy free, kosher and vegan. IWON Organics iwonorganics.com