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HEALTHY INGREDIENTS ARE THE HEROES IN ARNOTT’S NEW COOKIES
Arnott’s has launched two health-inspired biscuit ranges that incorporate fruit and vegetables as core ingredients.
Its Fruit & Roots Cookies, are a morning snack in three varieties: Apple & Oat with Carrot; Choc & Berry with Beetroot; and Apricot & Coconut with Sweet Potato. They contain no artificial colours or flavours.
The other new range, Simple Batch cookies, contain only familiar household ingredients including flour, honey, oats and eggs. They have no refined white sugar and are sweetened with only raw sugar, honey or golden syrup.
The Simple Batch range includes: ANZAC Biscuits; Choc Coconut Cookies; Honey Cinnamon Butter Biscuits; and Vanilla Butter Biscuits. They also have no
COBS POPS UP A NEW RANGE OF CHIPS
Popcorn snack food brand Cobs has launched a new style of air-popped chip called Pop’d Chips. The new snacks are a blend of potato, rice and corn created by combining heat and pressure, air-popped into a crispy chip. Promoted as a healthy snack food, they are made with high-oleic sunflower oil. Cobs say the air-popped chips have 60 per cent less fat than a regular potato chip.
“Over the past fourteen years, Cobs has established itself as a leader in the ready-to-eat popcorn category, and we’re now taking our knowledge of ‘better for you’
artificial colours, flavours or preservatives.
“We know people enjoy the taste and texture of home baking but often don’t have
the time or interest to pop on the oven mitts, which is where Simple Batch comes in. Delivering simple ingredient and delicious biscuits – it’s a win, win,” Arnott’s marketing director snack innovation Sarah Ryan said.
Arnott’s Fruits & Roots cookies come in 175g (10 biscuit) packs for RRP $5.95, while the Simple Batch range comes in 160-180g boxes at RRP $4.
snacks into the development of this flavour-packed chip range,” Cobs head of marketing Kristie Ellerton said. Pop’d Chips come in three flavours including Sour
Cream & Chives, Sweet Chilli & Sour Cream, and Salt of the Sea. They are available at Woolworths and independent supermarkets in 110g bags, RRP $4.
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PEA SNACKS
MAKER BRANCHES OUT
A new crisp made from black beans has been released by Calbee International. The Japanese snack food company, a $2.27 billion global business, is
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UPTON’S SERVES UP READY-TO-EAT
known for its gluten-free snack foods.
It expanded into Australia in 2017 with Harvest Snaps,
Snow Pea Crisps and Shrimp Chips brands, all made from non-GMO pulses such peas, beans, and lentils.
Seven flavours of its Harvest Snaps baked pea crisps are already stocked in over 3500 outlets in Australia. The black bean range has four flavours.
“This innovative new black bean snack breaks ground again – because of the incredible taste and texture, customers are going to keep coming back for more, just like they have with Harvest Snaps Pea Crisps,” Calbee Australia managing director Tim Maughan said.
The range of flavours for the new Harvest Snaps Black Bean Baked Crisps include Original Salted, Sour Cream & Chives, Paprika and Chilli & Lime and are available at Woolworths and Coles in 85g bags for RRP $3.
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VEGAN JACKFRUIT MEALS
US-based Upton’s Naturals is launching a range of pre-seasoned heat-and-serve vegan jackfruit meals in Australia. The company that calls itself “an independently- owned, ethical vegan company” cooks young but not ripe jackfruit for the prepared meals. Marketed as a nutrient-dense, plant-based meat substitute, Upton’s says the cooked jackfruit tastes like pulled pork or shredded chicken and can be used to stir fry or as an ingredient to make tacos and sandwiches.
The spikey jackfruit, a native to southeast Asia, is reportedly the world’s largest fruit and it is used as a mild-flavoured, nutrient-dense, plant-based substance to make this vegan meat substitute. The company says the ready-to-eat vegan meals are made using natural ingredients, offering a good source of fibre, free of cholesterol, gluten, soy, oil, GMOs, and artificial flavours.
The Jackfruit heat-and-serve meals includes Bar-B-Que, Thai Curry, Chili Lime, Sweet & Smoky, Sriracha as well as an unseasoned original variety. Upton’s Naturals Jackfruit meals are available from health food shops and independent grocery stores with an RRP of $8.95.
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