Flax4Life Adds Chocolate Mint to Brownie Line
Chocolate Mint is the newest brownie flavor from Flax4Life, a small family-owned and operated bakery in the Pacific Northwest that’s certified gluten free, dairy free and nut free. The bakery does use coconut. All of its products are all natural and free of preservatives and cholesterol.
Flax4Life’s brownie line also includes Chocolate, Toasted Coconut, Dark Cherry and Cappuccino. All five flavors are available in single-serve packaging as well as in clamshell packaging of 12.
Single-serve packaging is also offered fro three flavors of Flax4Life Muffins: Carrot Raisin, Chocolate Chip and Wild Blueberry. Four-packs of muffins are offered in Wild Blueberry, Carrot Raisin, Chocolate Chip, Cranberry Orange, Apple Cinnamon and Hawaiian Pineapple flavors.
Flax4Life offers guilt-free cakes in Chocolate and Carrot Cake. The Chocolate Cake is covered in fudge frosting and dark chocolate shavings, while the Carrot Cake is covered in dairy-free cream cheese frosting with toasted coconut. Each 200-calorie serving of the Chocolate Cake has just 70 calories from fat with 650mg of Omega 3s, while each 190-calorie serving of the Carrot Cake contains 90 fat calories with more than 1,000mg of Omega 3s.
Elmhurst Offers Simpler Plant-Based Barista Editions of Non-Dairy Creamers
Since debuting at Natural Products Expo West two years ago, Elmhurst® 1925 – which rose from a 90-year-old dairy – has had quite a ride. It started with a unique method enabling lush, nutritious plant milks with six ingredients or less and no gums or emulsifiers. But this simpler, better story does not end here. Elmhurst has continued to push the limits of plant-based nutrition with a two-ingredient unsweetened line, peanut protein shakes and Barista Editions made just for coffee.
Coffee is a virtual essential for any gourmet kitchen. Of course, not all roasts are made equal. Neither are the products that support them – whether creamers or the growing assortment of specialty barista plant milks. Elmhurst set out to solve this problem with its Barista Editions, delivering dairy-level performance, essential nutrition and an enviably clean label led by the unique character of the source ingredient.
Barista Editions are available in Milked Oats™, Milked Brown Rice™ and Milked Almonds™. Each rich, creamy variety foams to café standards, making for a perfect latte or velvety cappuccino. They function ideally as creamers, too. Flavor is balanced to accent, rather than overwhelm, the roast – allowing good coffee to become a great cup.
All of this happens with five ingredients or less and no oils. As well as flavor, Elmhurst’s Barista Editions channel the nutrition of the source ingredient. The oat and brown rice varieties, for instance, contain 16g whole grain per serving, earning them the Whole Grains Council stamp.
Joining Elmhurst’s Barista Editions, and completing its broader Barista Series, is Milked Cashews™. This versatile plant milk is approved by coffee professionals for needs from sophisticated to simple. Beyond this, Elmhurst is exploring other simpler, better takes on coffee – particularly, a unique line of creamers made with one of nature’s emerging seeds: hemp.
Divine Chocolate Introduces New Organic Line
This year, Divine Chocolate expands its lineup with an innovative organic line. The new collection contains four 2.8 ounce bars, each made with Fairtrade cocoa sourced from São Tomé. The four variants include Lemon, Turmeric & Ginger, Cocoa Nibs, and Blueberry & Popped Quinoa.
The introduction of these products reflects consumer demand for healthful, tasty treats. Divine also capitalizes on an underdeveloped market for flavored high-percentage cocoa bars. For consumers seeking chocolate that is low in sugar and high in quality, this line meets their needs. Chocolate lovers will particularly delight in the fact that the range is Non-GMO Project Verified, certified by the Vegan Society, USDA Organic and Certified Fairtrade.
For Divine Chocolate, this is its first organic chocolate line, and it’s the company’s first time partnering with a new cocoa co-operative: CECAQ-11. CECAQ-11 is a Fairtrade and organic cocoa farmer co-operative in São Tomé. São Tomé is a beautiful, forest-covered volcanic island off the west coast of Africa. When paired with sister island Príncipe, the two were once the biggest producers of cocoa in the world. In fact, this earned them the collective title of “Chocolate Island.” Over the last half-century, however, cocoa farming there collapsed.
Today, the CECAQ-11 co-operative works to rejuvenate the country’s reputation for high-quality cocoa. It’s the members’ aim to promote the re-discovered secret of spicy and woodsy São Toméan cocoa beans.
Divine Chocolate is the only Fairtrade chocolate company co-owned by farmers. A co-op in Ghana called Kuapa Kokoo, made up of over 85,000 farmers, owns 44 percent of Divine and shares in its profits. With the introduction of the new organic line, cocoa farmers in São Tomé enjoy the benefits of Fairtrade prices and premiums, and Divine Chocolate continues to deliver income to farmers in Ghana through its business model.
As a result, Divine Chocolate continues to show its commitment to its mission – creating equitable and empowering trading relationships with smallholder farmers in Africa and around the world.
