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SWEETS & TREATS SHOW EXTRA www.gourmetnews.com n MAY 2018 n GOURMET NEWS S T 1 8 Simple Mills Debuts 'Clean' Soft-Baked Cookies Advancing its status as a leader of the clean food movement with the market's No. 1 fastest-growing natural baking mixes and crackers, Simple Mills is introducing the market's first soft-baked cookies to deliver the taste and texture of a traditional wheat- based cookie in a clean formulation that is free of gluten, grain, soy, corn, dairy, GMOs and artificial ingredients. The Simple Mills Soft-Baked Cookie lineup includes Chocolate Chip, Snickerdoo- dle, Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate Toasted Coconut varieties – all made without using high levels of sugar and gums and/or emulsifiers typically required to create a clean soft-baked cookie. Each SKU uses an almond flour base, is smartly sweetened with honey and coconut sugar, and is formulated with a handful of other whole-food ingredi- ents. All varieties contain up to 20 percent less sugar content than other soft-baked brands (5-6 grams of sugar per serving compared to as much as 13 in competing soft-baked prod- ucts). They are also paleo-friendly and con- tain none of the dextrose, potato starch, xanthan gum, soy lecithin, sodium bicarbon- ate or ammonium bicarbonate that are com- mon even in "natural" cookies. It's the latest addition to a Simple Mills portfolio that also includes eight bak- ing mixes, six almond flour cracker flavors, four sprouted seed cracker vari- eties, four crunchy cookies and two frostings – all cre- ated with the same clean-food principles. Distributed in 12,000-plus grocery stores from Whole Foods to Target and Meijer, the brand has also earned broad recognition, ranging from a Chicago Innovation Award and a "Fab Five" rating on Instacart as one of the top trending food products in 2017, to product awards from Good Housekeeping, Prevention, Self, Clean Eating, Delicious Living, Paleo Magazine, Yoga Journal and more. In addition, company founder and Chief Executive Officer Katlin Smith has been recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc. 30 Under 30, and Progressive Grocer Top Woman in Grocery competi- tions. The company's goal: to pro- vide simple, wholesome, convenient foods that taste great; eliminate processed, artifi- cial, GMO, high-carbohydrate, nutrition- empty ingredients; and both support and encourage healthy eating habits. It's that Simple. For more information, go to www .simplemills.com. Three New Varieties, Two New Pack Sizes of Skinny Salamis In the year since its introduction of the Skinny Salamis™ line, MeatCrafters Inc, a USDA certified maker of artisanal salamis, sausages and duck breast prosciutto, had to double its production facility to handle the extraordinary growth. MeatCrafters, Inc has introduced three new varieties of Skinny Salamis this year, bringing to six the total va- rieties now available. Skinny Salamis are a savory meat snack with a healthy profile, the only traditionally cured salami in the fast growing grab 'n go meat snack category. Skinny Salamis have been recognized by the media and industry professionals for being a meat snack category disrupter, in that they are a cured, not cooked or processed meat snack. Manufactured in the familiar stick format, each salami is 16.25 grams of cured and seasoned beef, lamb or pork – no sugar and no carbs, gluten and dairy free, made in a nut-free facility under USDA su- pervision with top quality, heritage antibi- otic-free meat with no hormones added. The four packs are available in six vari- eties: Black Angus Beef, Street Cart Shawarma (lamb), Lamb Merguez, (new) Casbah (Pork-Mediterranean flavor profile- new), Spicy Chorizo (new), and Truffle Pork. Each stick has 5 or 6 grams of protein, and 40 or 45 calories per stick. The product has a nine-month shelf life and meets the crite- ria of multiple need-state consumers – clean label, keto, diabetic-friendly, gluten free, paleo, grain and soy free and more. "Skinny Salamis are an authentic, healthy alternative to grain-based, cooked and processed meat snacks and offer a distinctly different texture that we believe makes for a more flavorful eating experience," says Founder Mitch Berliner. "The growth in the 'good for you' protein snack category and the increased demand for single portions, prompted us to in- troduce a two stick pack and a one stick pack for sampling, giveaways or office snack kitchens," Berliner explains. The Skinny Salamis are a deli- cious high protein "grab and go" snack perfect for backpacks, lunch boxes, camping, hiking, biking, of- fice snack rooms and fitness facil- ities. They are now available for gift baskets and at specialty retail- ers and gourmet and natural food shops, wineries, breweries and some airports throughout the United States. For more information, go to www.meat crafters.com or contact Mitch Berliner at 301.440.8496. Suzanne's Specialties: "Sweetness the Way Mother Nature Intended" Suzanne's Specialties has been supplying al- ternative sweeteners to the health food and industrial food markets since 1984. Its offer- ings include brown rice syrup, clarified rice syrup, tapioca maltodextrin, rice maltodex- trin, rice syrup solids, tapioca syrup, agave syrup, inulin, cane sugar, invert syrups, mo- lasses, honey, barley malt syrup and coconut sugar. It also has the ability to make custom blends and sweetener systems. Suzanne's Specialties Organic Honey has been verified by the Non-GMO Project. Suzanne's Specialties offers an InfantSafe ® version of all of its rice syrups. This unique product contains less than 10 ppb for arsenic and lead, meeting the FDA standard for drink- ing water. It is available in all DE levels. It packs its industrial products in pails, drums, totes and tank wagons. All products are available in organic with most having a conventional version as well. Suzanne's promises that all of its products are made with only the highest quality organic and all- natural ingredients. Each one is sure to give your formulas and applications "Sweetness the Way Mother Nature Intended™." Suzanne's Specialties also provides an ex- tensive line of retail products. These include its best-selling Ricemellow Crème, rice syrup based fruit spreads, flavored rice syrups and traditional offerings such as organic molasses, organic agave syrup, organic honey, organic rice syrup and organic barley malt syrup. Pack sizes on its retail line range from jars to gallons to tubs to pails. It can service the needs of a household, restaurant, small bakery or institution. Visit www.suzannes-specialties .com for more information on these products or to shop in its easy to use online store. With distribution facilities on both the East and West coasts and a diverse product line, Suzanne's Specialties has the ability to service your company's specific needs. For more information, visit www.suzannes -specialties.com. Epic Source Foods Offers Goat Milk Products Epic Source Foods continues to find reasons to smile thanks to the explosive growth of its goat milk portfolio Funny Farm by Laloo's. The company introduced the portfolio at Expo West a year ago with mock bags and boxes in hopes people would give it a chance to prove it really does have a delicious taste profile, uniquely different from any other goat milk product in the world. The Funny Farm portfolio consists of the world's first Mac & Cheese, Cheddar Pop- corn and Frozen Pizza line made exclusively with goat milk. Now the portfolio contains over 20 SKUs that include hard and soft cheeses, butter and unique cheese spreads unlike anything else you can find in the U.S. Julia and Tim Millson, Owners of Epic Source, say they're having a ball with this portfolio. The amazing nutritional and sus- tainability benefits combined with the cow- like taste has catapulted it to one of the fastest growing "real-dairy" companies. It transitioned from a 15-year-old goat milk ice cream company called Laloo's to a full goat milk portfolio covering edge and center store opportunities. Its distribution now covers the country and far beyond, making it a chal- lenge as a self-funded company still seeking a partner. The company's passion to get its products into the hands of the hundreds of millions of consumers that can't or won't consume cow milk is what drives it. The delicious reputation of the Laloo's ice cream is what brought customer acceptance so quickly. Until Funny Farm, there were no other "real dairy" food options outside of cow milk. The com- pany believes that goat milk is sustain- ably and nutritionally superior. Goat milk is the closest thing to mother's milk on the planet, and contains less lactose, lower carbs, more vitamin A and D, potassium, copper, iron and manganese. Goat milk fat globules are 90 percent smaller than a cow's, provid- ing that EZ-PZ digestibility edge. Cow milk contains Alpha s1 casein, the allergen that af- fects so many. The sustainability that goats provide are amazing; their tiny carbon hoof- print combined with the fact goats produce more milk per ounce of grass eaten than cows make them the perfect dairy source. Most people never knew that goat milk rep- resents 70 percent of all the world's milk. North America is finally catching on to this worldwide trend, with goat milk consump- tion growing while cow milk continues to decline. Thanks to its clean taste profiles, people don't believe the com- pany's products are made from goat milk. Its milk doesn't con- tain those grassy, lemony flavors it refers to as "goaty." Better milk really does makes better cheese and ice cream! About The Epic Source Food Company LLC Epic Source Foods offices in Frisco Texas with production in Wisconsin. Epic is a woman, employee, family owned company and owns Funny Farm, Laloo's Goat Milk Ice Cream, Nutritional Noodle Pasta Com- pany, Planet Harvest and the Napa Valley Cheese Company. For more information, go to www.epic sourcefoods.com, www.funnyfarmfoods.com or www.laloos.com.