Changing the way you
view (and eat) plums forever, Sunsweet
Bakery hascombined the dense
nutrition of its highly popular dried plums with other purple ingredients to
create an exciting new line of baked goods as healthy as they are delicious.
New products such as Purple Country Bread and Purple Swirl Loaf Cake can now be
found at Costco locations throughout Southern California and the Southwest.
"Studies have
shown dried plums to be higher in antioxidants, higher in fiber, and lower in
sugar than raisins and dried cranberries. Our plum infused product line is a
natural evolution of the Sunsweet brand", said Tom Leahy, representative
for Sunsweet. "By using our customer's favorite fruit as the key
ingredient in our new line of breads, cookies, and pastries, we are creating
exciting new taste experiences with a healthier nutrition profile than other
similar products. Plus, by combining plums with purple wheat and purple corn,
the products are not only further enhanced nutritionally, but they are also
beautiful to look at."
Never mind all that.
These are DELICIOUS! Think of it—you can feel virtuous treating your craving
for something sweet and yummy. The Breakfast bites are scrumptions and the
bread is versatile—use it in sandwiches or as not-too-sweet toast.
Choose
from a wide variety of new products, including: Purple Country Bread, Purple
Swirl Bread and Purple Dinner Rolls. The bread line features Sunsweet's Plum
Amazins™, purple wheat and purple corn, along with 11 other grains.
For those who are
health conscious with a sweet tooth, Sunsweet Bakery also offers Oatmeal Plum
Walnut Cookies and Plum Walnut Breakfast Bites, both made with Plum Amazins™.
The gentleman in the Quaker hat had better move over. There’s a new oatmeal in town. Better Oats™, an innovative new brand of instant oatmeal from
Malt-O-Meal, will arrive in stores this spring. There are 34 unique varieties so they promise they offer a better option when it comes to instant oatmeal.
Made with 100% whole grain oats and ground flax in every pouch, Better Oats instant oatmeal is a good source of Omega-3 and is naturally trans-fat and cholesterol free. And each variety also has its own unique benefits. USDA Certified Organic RAW Pure & Simple™, for example, is made with five whole grains, including quinoa and barley; Abundance® is a fine source of fiber and a good source of protein, and Oat
Heads™, for kids, is a good source of calcium, Vitamin D and antioxidant vitamins A and E.
Some Better Oats varieties utilize old-fashioned oats and also sources quality ingredients, like real berries, premium chocolate, and singular spices, which contribute to the brand’s distinctively bold taste. Some other flavors are mmm … Muffins™ for a sweet start to the day, Lavish™ to satisfy chocolate cravings and Oat Revolution™ Thick & Hearty for an old-fashioned oatmeal experience instantly. Varieties of Mom’s Best Naturals® –which include Plain Grain Organic and Dark Chocolate – are found exclusively in the natural food/organic aisle in supermarkets nationwide.
Better Oats has also developed more convenient and environmentally friendly packaging And the Better Oats instant oatmeal pouch doubles as an easy-to-use Measuring Cup Pouch™, simplifying breakfast on-the-go. The space-saving package is also better
for the planet and the pantry, generating up to 35%* less waste than existing cartons in the oatmeal aisle and taking up less space on kitchen shelf.
Who is behind this new oatmeal? The Malt-O-Meal Company, founded in 1919, is the largest family-owned cereal company in the country. Malt-OMeal says it is their mission is to save consumers money by being the leading producer of high quality, affordably priced breakfast cereals. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, the company manufactures farina-based hot cereals, a full
line of oatmeal products, traditional all-family and kids’ ready-to-eat cereals, and all-natural ready-to-eat cereals.
The taste—absolutely amazing. This new kid lives up to the expectations and then some. Welcome!
. Cooks in many countries depend on rice cookers to reliably cook this staple. But, you say, you don’t need an appliance that cooks rice? Even if you are a cook whose rice always, without fail, never comes out gummy, too hard, too sticky no matter if it is brown, white or wild, keep reading. How about one that cooks not just rice but a host of other dishes? The new generation of rice cookers, which use new technology, are more than just rice cookers. Cuisinart’s Rice Plus Multi-Cooker with Fuzzy Logic Technology allows you to cook not just rice like a chef on a food network. It also enables you to artfully prepare Quinoa, Millet, Bulgur Wheat, Couscous, Amaranth and Kasha. And not just rice—white rice, brown rice, sushi rice, Black Rice, Wehani, Wild Rice. These are all grains or other foods that will bring inexpensive and nutritious variety into your menus. Quinoa? An amazing grain-like crop in the goosefoot family that is steeped in complete proteins –12 to 18%-- and is native to the Andes. You might try cooking it—there are directions for cooking this and a host of other foods.
And there is no longer any need to fear the Risotto. There is a special setting for Risotto. Remember in the film Big Night and the angst about making the perfect Risotto? Risotto doesn’t stay in a holding pattern very gracefully. It is best served immediately and an appliance like this makes the planning easier. You can figure the cooking time down to the minute so your creations are ready when you and the rest of the diners are. One rice well-suited to Risotto is Arborio [ http://www.usarice.com Arborio rice is a large, bold rice with a characteristic white dot at the center of the grain. By the way of length/width ratio and starch characteristics, it is classified as a medium grain rice. ..This rice develops a creamy texture around a chewy center and has exceptional ability to absorb flavors.]
The Keep Warm feature does just that, keeps the foods you’ve made in the cooker at just the right temperature.
Cuisinart’s Rice Plus Multi-Cooker is light weight, very easy to handle and simple to operate and clean. You’ll have fun trying the different recipes you will be able to easily make using Couscous, Kasha, Amaranth, Millet, etc., and oh, yes—Rice.
Here is a little more information about rice fromhttp://www.rice-trade.com/world-wide-rice-production.htmlRice is the second largest produced cereal in the world. At the beginning of the 1990s, annual production was around 350 million tons and by the end of the century it had reached 410 million tons.
Production is geographically concentrated in Western and Eastern Asia. Asia is the biggest rice producer, accounting for 90% of the world's production and consumption of rice. China and India, which account for more than one-third of global population supply over half of the world's rice. Brazil is the most important non-Asian producer, followed by the United States. Italy ranks first in Europe.
The world's major rice-producing countries - including the two most populous nations, China and India - have emphasized the importance of continuing to develop new rice varieties to guarantee Asia's food security and support the region's economic development.
Today, rice is grown and harvested on every continent except Antarctica, where conditions make its growth impossible. The majority of all rice produced comes from India, China, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, and Bangladesh. Asian farmers still account for 92-percent of the world's total rice production. More than 550 million tons of rice is produced annually around the globe. In the United States, farmers have been successfully harvesting rice for more than 300 years. There are thousands of strains of rice today, including those grown in the wild and those which are cultivated as a crop.”
More, I am sure, than you ever need to know about rice. Want to know more about Amaranth? You’re on your own.
Oatmeal from Ocean Spray? Really?.. Yes—and it’s really, really good.
Ocean Spray, the more than 75 year old company that raised the Cranberry to new heights,has teamed withManawa, Wis., based Sturm Foods to bring us Ocean Spray Instant Oatmeal. This very quick hot breakfast cereal is made with whole grain oats, real fruit and 10 vitamins and minerals and is available in 4 varieties: Cranberry, Cranberry Pomegranate, Cranberry Honey Multigrain, Cranberry Orange Muffin.
The taste is just sweet enough and because oatmeal has a way of sticking with you for quite a while after you have eaten it, you won’t get hungry until it is time for the nextmeal. Ocean Spray knows their cranberries and other fruits and Sturm Foods knows oatmeal.
Here is a little information about Ocean Spray: They first introduced Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail in 1930. Then in 1963, Ocean Spray introduced the juice industry's first juice blend--Cran•Apple™ Cranberry Apple Juice Drink. It was so popular, they added more new flavors to the line, including low calorie cranberry juice blends.
A few interesting facts about cranberries from their website
The cranberry gets its name from Dutch and German settlers, who nicknamed it the "crane berry" after the shape of the blossoms. When the vines bloom in the late spring and the flowers' light pink petals twist back they have a resemblance to the head and bill of a crane. Over time, the name was shortened to cranberry.
The cranberry is one of only a handful of major fruits native to North America. Others include the blueberry and Concord grape.
On average, every acre of cranberry bog is supported by 4 to 10 acres of wetlands, woodlands and uplands. This area offers refuge to a rich variety of wildlife including the bald eagle, osprey, great blue heron, fox, deer and wild turkey.
All you need to know for breakfast, though is Ocean Spray Instant Oatmeal is a tasty and wholesome start to the day.
