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www.gourmetnews.com 16 2018 BUYERS GUIDE • Gourmet News LaCroix: a Clean Alternative to Sugary Beverages As the No. 1 sparkling water in the U.S., LaCroix has taken over as a refreshing and hydrating alterna- tive to sugary beverages. Devel- oping a diverse portfolio of naturally essenced flavors, the company's product line show- cases 14 core flavors. Tanger-EEN is sure to turn heads with its crisp and refreshing taste. With zero calories, zero sug- ars, zero sweeteners and zero sodium, it's hard to believe a nutritional panel this clean can taste so good. It's 100 percent natural, 100 percent in- nocent. Always. LaCroix Water www.lacroixwater.com Just Jan's: All Natural Fruit Flavor Made with 14 percent less sugar than traditional preserves and jams, Just Jan's spreads are packed with pure fruit flavor. Just Jan's is a full line of artisanal, all- natural fruit spreads, marmalades, curds and sofi™ finalist Tangerine Sriracha with a strong following and reputation for high quality and unique flavors. Food service, pri- vate label and room service sizes for hotels are available. Just Jan's www.justjans.com FEATURED PRODUCTS Goya ® Frozen Masarepa Discos are a traditional Colom- bian and Venezuelan product that will be en- joyed with those who ap- preciate authenticity and Latin flavors as well as those of Colombian and Venezuelan families, who will regard them as the taste of home. Precooked with corn flour and other ingredients to provide traditional and authentic flavors, these Masarepa Discos require only 20-30 minutes to prepare. Goya Frozen Masarepa Discos are available in 14-ounce bags with 10 discs each. Goya also offers ready to eat and frozen empanadas filled with meat as well as cheese. Goya www.goya.com Goya Offers Convenience, Authentic Ingredients Landcrafted Food is a new brand of smoked meat sticks offered by founders Gary Mitchell and Brantley Ivey, who are raising cattle in Grayson County, Virginia. They've been in the business of supplying fresh beef to Washington, D.C. restau- rateurs for the past decade, and the new meat sticks, offered in two fla- vors — Original Smoked Beef Stick and Sweet Smoked Beef Stick — are a new venture in vertical integra- tion of their grass-fed cattle farm- ing operations. They're buying humanely- raised grass-fed cattle for a pre- mium price from their neighboring small family farmers and turning the meat into premium meat snacks in a new facility on their farm. The premium prices they're paying for beef that's raised according to their quality stan- dards are an important means of providing extra income to help those farmers stay afloat when commodity beef prices have slid to the low points of cyclic price swings. Landcrafted Food www.landcraftedfood.com Meat Sticks to Save Virginia Family Farms New Flavors of Graziers Whole Milk Grass-Fed Yogurts Sierra Nevada Cheese Com- pany has introduced two new fla- vors to its Graziers line of Whole Milk Grass-Fed Yogurts. Mixed Berry and Lemon join a line that already includes Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry and Vanilla in 6-ounce cups and Plain and Vanilla in 24-ounce cups. The milk that's used to make the Graziers Yogurts, like the milk that makes the com- pany's Graziers Cheeses, which are offered in Raw Medium Cheddar, Raw Mon- terey Jack, Raw Sharp Cheddar and Raw Jalapeño Jack, is sourced from northern California family dairy farms that have their cows – an average of about 100 cows per farm – on pasture for about 335 days a year. The farm- ers use intensive rotational graz- ing to keep the cattle moving from one small lot to another every day to ensure that the cows are al- ways eating grasses with the highest nutritional quality to pro- vide optimal nutritional value for the milk they produce. Cows fed on this kind of intensively man- aged pasture produce milk that's much higher in conjugated linoleic acid, an Omega-6 fatty acid that's thought to have positive health ef- fects, than the milk from grain-fed cows. This kind of pasture management has also been shown to benefit the environ- ment by reducing soil erosion and increas- ing carbon seques- tration, the ability of the soil to capture and hold carbon so that it is not released as carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas. The Graziers yogurts are made from whole milk that's non-ho- mogenized, so that a layer of cream forms on the top of every cup. The fruit is organic, in keep- ing with the company's clean in- gredients philosophy. Sierra Nevada Cheese Company 530.934.8660 www.sierranevadacheese.com Frontier Soups Mississippi Delta Tomato Basil Soup Mix Frontier Soups™ has reimagined a classic with Mississippi Delta Tomato Basil Soup Mix. This nos- talgic soup is gluten free and a year-round favorite. It can be dressed up with fresh tomatoes, shrimp and feta cheese for a sat- isfying summer meal. Dried pin- wheel tomatoes are eye-catching in the clear packaging. The sug- gested retail price is $6.49. Frontier Soups 800.300.SOUP (7687) www.frontiersoups.com Heat and Eat Quinoa Dishes from Ancient Harvest Ancient Harvest has made quinoa more convenient and accessible with its launch of a trio of microwave- able quinoa dishes. Each two- serving pouch is ready in 90 sec- onds and is made primarily with quinoa – no rice or fillers. A serving offers 11 g of pro- tein and 21 percent of the daily value of iron. It's made with co- conut oil and is organic, Non- GMO Project Verified and whole grain. The three varieties are Quinoa with Sea Salt, Quinoa with Lentils & Garlic and Quinoa with Chickpeas & Gar- lic. Each pouch retails for a sug- gested $3.49. Ancient Harvest 310.217.8125 www.ancientharvest.com

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