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THE PANTRY KITCHENWARE NEWS & HOUSEWARES REVIEW n AUGUST 2017 n www.kitchenwarenews.com 1 8 The Pantry Allergen-Friendly Foods Enjoy Life Foods is launching three new flavors in its line of Baked Chewy Bars: Caramel Blondie, Carrot Cake and Lemon Blueberry Poppy Seed. The launch follows Enjoy Life's steadfast portfolio expansion across multiple aisles of the grocery store as it fuels the growth of the Free-From industry, which is projected to reach $20 billion by 2020. "The foundation of our brand is to give the millions of people with food allergies quality products, but it 's equally as important that our offerings are delicious with knockout flavors that today's shoppers will gravitate towards," said Enjoy Life Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Joel Warady. "Our new Baked Chewy Bars are crafted with innovative ingredients that are perfect for the health-conscious consumer, and the authentic flavors are great options for breakfast, a mid-day snack or a post-dinner indulgence. From bars to baking mixes, we're taking over the center aisles so when people see our logo they know that they 're getting a superior product without the worr y of what 's inside." The new Baked Chewy Bars are packed with pure and simple ingredients, featuring real inclusions and a proprietary Pure Life Balanced Dry Blend™ (hulled sunflower kernels, cassava flour, white pearled-grain sorghum flour, quinoa flakes). As with all Enjoy Life products, the new bars are made in a dedicated nut-f ree and gluten-f ree baker y, are certified gluten f ree, Non- GMO Project Verified, kosher- and halal- certified, and are f ree-f rom the top eight common food allergens: milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soy. They're offered in three flavors. Caramel Blondie offers the sweet sensation of caramel bits and chocolate chips in every bite, while Carrot Cake brings sweet and spicy flavor notes derived f rom real shredded carrots, hull-roasted pumpkin seeds and California raisins. Lemon Blueberry Poppy Seed offers tangy and light lemon combined with bold blueberry, The new Baked Chewy Bars will ship to natural and conventional retail stores in July with a retail price of $4.29 per carton. Each carton contains five 1.15-ounce bars, an increase f rom the original line's 1-ounce sizes. KN Enjoy Life Foods Tantalizes Taste Buds with Three New Baked Chewy Bars BY LORRIE BAUMANN The oldest members of the Millennial Generation are now in their mid-30s, which means that a great many of them have become parents who now have school-age children. That simple calculation has the food industr y scrambling to provide products that those parents will feel comfortable about packing into their kids' lunch boxes. As one example, Creative Snacks Co., which just won a 2017 sofi award best new product in the savory snacks category for its Organic Coconut Snacks with Cranberries, Cashews, Almonds, and Chia Seeds, also offers Baked Almond Clusters in five flavors that include various combinations of dried fruit, nuts and seeds for a snack the company is marketing as "Real Good, Feel Good Snacks." The Almond Clusters are made in small batches and offer a 28-day shelf life. The 4- ounce bag retails for $3.99. The company is also launching 1- ounce, 2.75-ounce and 3.5-ounce snack packs, so there's a range of sizes that will work in lunches. GoodnessKNOWS Snack Squares are a similar product that amps up the sweetness with more f ruit and dark chocolate. Four bite-size snack squares are packaged together into a bar-sized pack with a 150 calorie count that retails for about $1.49. There are currently six flavors, with five more scheduled to launch in 2018. The current offering includes top- seller Cranberry & Almond, Strawberry & Peanut and Mixed Berry & Almond, each of them combining f ruit, whole nuts and dark chocolate. Next year's launches will be nut varieties without f ruit, which will amp up the protein and lower sugar. The snack squares are non-GMO and gluten f ree, and they contain no artificial colors, flavors or sweeteners. They 're offered in 12-count singles cartons and 5- count multipacks. Cheesewich, which is a product with two slices of high-quality cheese f rom Burnett Dairy sandwiched around a slice of deli meat, is currently offered in four varieties: Cheddar Jack Cheese & Hard Salami, Colby Jack Cheese & Hard Salami, Provolone Cheese & Hard Salami and Pepper Jack Cheese & Hard Salami. They're packaged in a 2.5-ounce single-serving that's vacuum sealed for a ref rigerated 12-month shelf life. Each offers 14 to 16 grams of protein and is gluten f ree. This fall, Cheesewich will launch Bacon N Eggs, a gas-flushed vacuum-sealed package of two hard-cooked eggs and turkey bacon. The packaging offers grocers a 60-day shelf life, and the product will retail for somewhere around $2.59. G.H. Cretors, better known for its popcorn, just launched Hi I'm Skinny vegetable sticks with a front-of-label claim of 100 calories in each 0.71-ounce single- ser ving bag. There are three varieties: Sweet Onion, Sweet Potato and Sea Salt. The Sweet Onion and Sea Salt varieties are made with quinoa and whole grain corn meal, and each offers 2 grams of protein and 140 calories per serving. The Sweet Potato variety is made with rice flour and offers 1 gram of protein and 140 calories per serving. Individual packs will retail for 99 cents to $1.49. The company also makes Hi I'm Skinny Protein Snacks in a Mesquite BBQ flavor that offers 5 grams of protein in a 140- calorie ser ving and Hi I'm Skinny Superfood Sticks in a Mean & Green flavor that includes green pea flour, kale powder and spinach powder in a snack that offers 2 grams of protein in a 130- calorie serving. Nature's Bakery, which markets "Energy for Life's Great Journeys," is offering Organic Brownies in twin packs that are packaged as six twin packs per box. Flavors are Double Chocolate, Cool Mint and Salted Caramel. The company also offers several flavors of Oat Bars that combine oats with various f ruits or organic honey. These are also packed in boxes of six twin packs and retail for $4.99 per box. All of these feature the USDA Organic seal on the f ront and top of the package. One bar of the Honey & Oat bars has 60 calories with 10 f rom fat and contains 6 grams of sugar. The Organic Brownies, made with stoneground whole wheat flour and organic cane sugar syrup, have about 70 calories per brownie, depending on the flavor, and 6 grams of sugar. SunRidge Farms, makers of organic and natural foods, has just launched its all natural kids mix at the Sweets & Snacks Show in May. The all natural kids mix combines almonds, peanuts, raisins, apples, milk chocolate, peanut butter cups and milk chocolate rainbow drops for a snack that offers 4 grams of protein per serving and is a good source of minerals with low sodium. There are no trans fats or hydrogenated oils, and the kids mix contains no artificial ingredients. The milk chocolate for the rainbow drops is made with certified Fair Trade Cocoa, and it's non-GMO. Kids mix is offered in bulk cases for parents to package themselves for those lunch boxes. Finally, You Love Fruit Leather has come up with a healthier alternative to mass market f ruit leathers with You Love Fruit and You Love Veggies leathers made with 100 percent f ruit and vegetables, so they 're gluten f ree, USDA organic, kosher and non-GMO. The leathers are offered in Mango, Mango Coconut, Apple Cinnamon, Pomberry Acai, Tart Peach, Passion Fruit Punch, Key Lime as well as others, and Carrot & Chia Seed, Spinach & Kale and Spiced Beet Root flavors for the You Love Veggies. They're packaged in 2-serving bags with 45-50 calories per ser ving. One-ounce packages retail for about $1.99. KN Lunch Boxable Snacks for Millennial Parents

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