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NATURALLY HEALTHY www.gourmetnews.com n SEPTEMBER 2016 n GOURMET NEWS N H D Sitti's Foods Offers Line of Frozen Lebanese Cuisine Sitti's Foods is introducing a line of frozen Lebanese cuisine. The company's first items in production is its dessert line. The Lebanese version of baklava is different from the more recognized honey version with walnuts – it has a light, crispy, flaky tex- ture with pecans or pistachios and is not overly sweet. Sitti's Foods is making two varieties of baklawa, pronounced (Bit-Lāy-Wah), prod- uct – pecan and pistachio. These gourmet products are made with organic filo dough and sweet cream butter, granulated sugar and pecans or pistachios, and are finished with a simple sugar-based syrup. The baklawa con- tains only these natural ingredients. There are no palm oils, fillers, preservatives or GMOs in the desserts, which is distinguish- able when you taste it for the first time. Sitti's baklawa products are an industry first, being the only baklawa products on the market sold freezer-to-oven. This innova- tive process provides a taste profile different from other products on the market. The dessert comes in an ovenable tray that goes straight from freezer to a preheated 350 degree Fahrenheit oven and is baked for approximately 25 min- utes. Once removed from the oven, the included simple syrup is poured over the hot baklawa product. The finished dessert is crispy and flaky, just like it was made from scratch. The company believes baklawa is best served fresh from the oven and is excited to make this one of a kind product available to you. For the first time, restaura- teurs, caterers, coffee shops and gourmet bakeries can serve this freshly baked product without having to have spend the hours and cost making a similar product from scratch. Sitti's Foods provides an excellent opportunity to add the highest quality baklava product to your menu, allowing you to tap into one of the fastest growing segments in the market – Mediterranean cuisine. Clear Conscience, LLC Provides Cruelty-Free Eye Drops Clear Conscience, LLC, the family-owned and operated company that introduced the nation's first (and to date only) cruelty-free contact lens solution in 1998, has now intro- duced the first-ever cruelty-free Redness Re- liever Eye Drops and Lubricant Eye Drops. "I started Clear Conscience because 'cru- elty-free' contact lens solution was one of the only products I personally needed that I couldn't find in stores across the nation," Stephen Bartell, Clear Conscience Founder, explains. A natural resources lawyer in Washington, D.C., Bartell continues, "I have always been concerned with environmental and animal cruelty issues (particularly need- less animal testing), and creating Clear Con- science allowed me the opportunity to provide superior quality, FDA-approved yet cruelty-free, eye care alternatives. Clear Conscience Contact Lens Solution has be- come a staple product in the natural product industry. However, we continued to receive many requests for cruelty- free products to help with redness and dry eyes for people that did not wear contact lenses. The expan- sion provides products to meet those demands." The Redness Reliever Eye Drops are fast acting and moisturize, refresh and protect eyes. The Lubricant Eye Drops provide high performance dry eye relief. Both products are FDA-approved, yet safety tested without the use of animals. Bartell proudly explains that "people will no longer have to choose between having clean, clear eyes or contact lenses and a clear conscience." Clear Con- science also donates 10 percent of all proceeds to environmental and animal welfare charitable organi- zations. As with its Multi-Pur- pose Contact Lens Solu- tion, the new eye drops will be available for sale in thousands of independent and na- tional chain health food stores and by eye care professionals nationwide, as well as dozens of online sites and its own website, www.clearconscience.com. For more information, go to www.clear conscience.com or stop by booth #4611. Introducing Farmer's Pantry Farmer's Pantry™ is a company that's pas- sionate about creating scrumptious, hearty snacks using the kind of authentic, identifi- able ingredients you would find in a farmer's pantry. Every snack is lovingly crafted from meats, grains and vegetables, all sourced on American farms. Farmer's Pantry is debuting two snack lines: Farmer's Pantry Cornbread Crisps and Farmer's Pantry Meal Snacks. Both snack lines are designed to feed a nation that has moved away from the traditional three meals a day routine. "Americans are working longer hours and commuting more, so each snack is munch- able, portable and totally delicious," said Josh Chaitovsky, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Farmer's Pantry. "Farmer's Pantry Snacks are very relevant for today's hard- working Americans, and they are also highly distinctive as no one else in the marketplace is offering these kinds of products. In fact, there are no other cornbread crisps or meal snacks available to consumers." "We believe that it's high-time for snacks to be wholesome, substantial, made from nat- ural ingredients and delicious," Chaitovsky added. "We also believe that to be truly sus- tainable, we must also pledge to give back to our American farmers and Americans in need by supporting important charitable organiza- tions such as Veterans Farm, Farm Aid and The FamilyFarms Charities." Farmer's Pantry Cornbread Crisps are made from 100 percent American farm- grown corn, and they're always baked, not fried. These are not tortilla chips. The company has transformed freshly baked cornbread or corn muffins into con- venient, crunchy, mouthwatering crisps for a taste so delicious consumers will be instantly hooked. Cornbread Crisps come in three fla- vors: Original, Jalapeño and Honey-Butter. Farmer's Pantry Cornbread Crisps are avail- able in two sizes: six-ounce bags of regular size Cornbread Crisps and two-ounce bags of bite-sized Cornbread Crisps. Perfect for supermarkets, mass market retailers, airport stores and convenience stores, Farmer's Pantry Cornbread Crisps are available in 12 per case, and will retail in the $3.99 range for six-ounce bags, and under $2.00 for two- ounce bags. Farmer's Pantry Meal Snacks were devel- oped with proprietary natural spices and a proprietary slow cooking method for the beef, chicken and turkey, blended together with slow roasted, hearty and crunchy veg- etables in an innovative double-pouched bag. Each meal snack is inspired by traditional American recipes such as: Herb Roasted Turkey with vegetables, cranberries and stuffing; Flame Grilled Chicken with slow roasted corn; Garden Harvest Chicken with vegetables; and Mesquite BBQ Beef with roasted corn and tomatoes. Every bite of Farmer's Pantry Meal Snacks has a substan- tial serving of vegetables and protein as well as flavor and crunch. Farmer's Pantry Meal Snacks have a sug- gested retail price of $5.99, weigh 2.5 ounces, and are packed in an eight pack case. They are perfect for supermarkets, mass market retailers, airport stores and conven- ience stores. For more information, visit www .farmerspantry.farm. Nitro Beverages: The New Hot Trend It looks like a beer, it tastes like a beer, it pours like a beer, but it's not a beer! It's Dan- delion Nitro, the newest creation from Teec- cino, the makers of the top selling brand of coffee alternatives in America. Inspired by the latest trend in cold brewed coffee, dubbed "nitro coffee," Teeccino's Dandelion Nitro is an artisan herbal brew that is infused with nitrogen just like a Guinness ® . Made from a proprietary blend of roasted dande- lion and chicory roots, its rich and creamy flavor with cascading bubbles creates an ex- citing taste experience. It took a Millennial who grew up watching his entrepreneurial mother create Teeccino in her kitchen to dream up Dandelion Nitro. Galen MacDougall, the son of Teeccino Founder Caroline MacDougall, has been crafting homebrewed beer made with Teec- cino for fun and good time drinking for friends and family. After hearing about nitro coffee, he decided to see what Teeccino would taste like simply brewed and nitro- genated. When Galen handed Caroline her first taste of nitrogenated Teeccino, she had a Eureka moment. "I've tasted hundreds of herbal bev- erages during my 40 year career, but nothing prepared me for the transformation in flavor that nitrogen imparts in Teeccino," she said. "It is so rich and creamy, smooth and refresh- ing, you just want to guzzle it down!" Nitrogenation brings out Teeccino's natu- ral caramelized sweetness, enabling Dande- lion Nitro to be completely unsweetened. With the new flavor trend toward bitter as consumers move away from overly sweet- ened beverages, customers now appreciate the bitter notes from roasted dandelion and chicory roots just like they enjoy the bitter- ness of hops in beer. Beer, as everyone knows, con- tains barley, so with many people now avoiding gluten, Galen and Caroline decided to make Dandelion Nitro certified gluten-free, so every- one can enjoy it. Of course, being naturally 100 percent alcohol-free also makes it attractive to people who want a re- freshing drink that fools everyone else into thinking they're drinking beer. Dandelion Nitro is perfect for anyone who chooses to be alcohol-free for one night or always. As Galen says, "Dandelion Nitro can be enjoyed whether you're the DD or a dozen drinks deep!" Capitalizing on the detox movement, Teeccino is serving Dandelion Nitro in ven- ues as diverse as nightclubs to natural food stores where functional beverages beneficial for the liver and the digestion are fully ap- preciated by both tea drinkers and alcohol imbibers alike. Packaged in five- gallon kegs for pouring on draft, the company plans on introducing Dandelion Nitro in single-serve containers later this year. Sales are currently concentrated in Southern California but plans call for a roll out along the West coast during 2016. A pint of Dandelion Nitro is priced on par with beer, Kombucha and nitro coffee on tap. Teeccino produces 18 flavors of herbal coffees and teas that are sold nation- ally in natural food and specialty grocery stores and retailers like Amazon. Packaged in 11-ounce bags of the all-purpose filter grind that brews like coffee and in 10-count boxes of tea-bags that steep like tea, the brand dom- inates the coffee alternative category with more than 50 percent market share. For more information, contact Galen Mac- Dougall at galen@teeccino.com.

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