EDITORS’ PICKS
Food, Beverage & Nonfood Products
From Soap to Chocolate
Best known for its popular natural soap, family-owned Dr. Bronner’s, a certified B Corporation, has introduced a line of certified USDA Organic, Fair Trade, vegan, kosher and Non-GMO Verified chocolate. Featuring chunky bites and smooth rich fillings, the line is made with 70% dark chocolate from cocoa beans grown using regenerative organic practices, and sweetened with lower-glycemic coconut sugar. Magic All-One Chocolate is on track to become Regenerative Organic Certified in 2022, by which the company seeks to demonstrate that chocolate can help mitigate climate change and support small-scale farmers globally. Available at retail in Salted Dark Chocolate, Roasted Whole Hazelnuts, Crunchy Hazelnut Butter, Salted Whole Almonds, Salted Almond Butter and Smooth Coconut Praline varieties, the line retails for $5.49 per approximately 3-ounce bar with a 20-month shelf life from the date of manufacture. What’s more, the outer wrapper of Magic All-One Chocolate is made from 100% recycled paper, with a minimum of 80% post-consumer recycled fiber. http://www.drbronner.com
Seafood Made Simple
Bristol Seafood has augmented its retail range with the Bristol Seafood Singles pack for the frozen case. The convenient product features quality seafood, along with chef-crafted compound butter and spices, packed in perforated, easy-peel singles with a QR code connecting the consumer to recipes and sustainability information. Bristol’s line offers center-cut Atlantic salmon portions, with additional SKUs including lemon and pesto butter or ginger and garlic butter. Seafood Singles is produced at Bristol’s facility in Portland, Maine, and shipped frozen. The 20-ounce packs have a suggested retail price range of $14.99-$16.99 each. Among the company’s other retail products are IQF bags of scallops, shrimp, and U.S.-produced line-caught haddock and cod; the My Fish Dish value-added skin pack line in frozen and slack-and-sell; and the recently launched Grab & Go offering. https://bristolseafood.com/
Specialized Smoothies
Seal the Seasons, the first national brand to sell locally grown frozen produce, has now launched a line of Farmer Blends smoothies. The offerings, initially launched in the Carolinas, mix the best locally grown fruits with organically grown tropicals like mango, banana and pineapple. Long a staple for those seeking fast and nutritious options, smoothies have gained in popularity as a result of consumers’ increased awareness of where their food comes from, as well as their desire to stay healthy amid the pandemic. The Farmer Blends line retails for a suggested $9.99 per 32-ounce bag. A Certified B Corporation, Seal the Seasons currently has 65-plus unique local SKUs available, supporting more than 70 farms and operating more than 12 freezing and packing sites across the United States. All of the company’s products are locally grown and locally sold. https://sealtheseasons.com/
Disney for Dogs
Developed by longtime contract manufacturer Phelps Pet Products, Table Scraps is a line of dog treats in packaging adorned with such beloved Disney characters as Pluto, Stitch (of “Lilo and Stitch”), Winnie the Pooh, and Simba (of “The Lion King”). The line also features quality clean-label recipes, four of them meat-first — Sweet Hawaiian Bacon, Roast Beef, Smoked Salmon and Hot Diggity Dog — as well as two USDA Organic Certified varieties, Organic Chicken Tender and Organic Honey Roasted Turkey, and two 100% plant-based options, Vegan Surf-N-Turf and Meatless Meatloaf. Table Scraps retails for a suggested $6.99 per 5-ounce resealable package. www.phelpspet.com; www.tablescrapstreat.com
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