24 GLUTEN FREE FOODS The Real Deal All Natural Snacks GOURMET NEWS JUNE <strong>2012</strong> www.gourmetnews.com The Real Deal All Natural Snacks was created from Keystone Snacks Inc., the 60+year-old family-owned company. The Real Deal’s products are all manufactured by Keystone at its plant in Easton, Pa. These all-natural snacks provide the wholesome, flavor-powered tastes that we all love, while Sierra Soups: A hearty, healthy taste of home Customers want to eat healthy, but they also have budgets to watch. As a retailer, how can you keep your customers coming back? One way is with Sierra Soups: vegetarian, vegan, gluten free mixes, complete with vegetables and spices in every package. These treasured family recipes are hearty and large enough to serve the whole family as a complete meal, and even have leftovers. (Trust an Italian mama to feed a big family right!) Sierra Soups offers eight different mixes, all delicious, inexpensive and easy to prepare. The most difficult step is to sauté an onion, and sometimes not even that. With the current bestseller, Fresno Fog Split Pea, customers need only add boiling water and cook for one hour. French Style Five-Bean Soup is great with chicken added, while Mama Sorrenti’s Minestrone is good with Italian Gluten is a protein family found in wheat barley and rye. These grain species were used from antiquity because gluten gives dough the elasticity needed to rise and keep its shape during baking. Gluten is also added as a stabilizing agent to several food products where it does not occur naturally. As Americans have become more aware of gluten, there is a growing concern about gluten in grain alcohol, which is used as a carrier in flavors. Grain alcohol is produced by fermentation of various grains, but the fermented alcohol is further distilled. This process separates the alcohol from all the other ingredients, including gluten. Distilled alcohol is typically made up of ethanol and leaving out all of the processed additives that our bodies hate. The exciting tastes, textures and colors of these crunchy snacks are sure to win you over! Just as CEO Bill Corriere Jr. states, “The Real Deal is Real Good.” To learn more, call 610-258-0888 or visit www.therealdealallnaturalsnacks.com. sausage. Directions for all these alternative serving methods are on the label, making them ideal in gift baskets or to cross-merchandise near meat and deli counters. All eight flavors are equally delicious cooked vegetarian, as the spice packet included is already complex enough to provide excellent flavor. Fast gaining popularity is Italian Lentil Soup, made with the small Pardina lentils. It cooks quickly and tastes fabulous. Sierra’s Country Vegetable mix was created without dehydrated vegetables to include fresh greens from the refrigerator. It also makes a perfect turkey carcass soup mix. From the Sorrenti family to you, “Buon Appetito!” Contact Sierra Soups at 800- 397-6887, or visit www.sierrasoups.com. Bakto Flavors: clearing up gluten confusion water. The chance that distilled grain alcohol will contain gluten or any other protein is practically not possible. Many of the flavors carried by Bakto Flavors LLC are alcohol- and water-based. Alcohol is the solvent of choice for extracting plant materials. Alcohol is a natural solvent found in nature and is readily broken down by the body or by microorganisms. This note is aimed at the many customers who worry about gluten in alcohol. There is no gluten in alcohol and many a person sitting at a bar will attest to that. Bakto Flavors specializes in the development of vanilla, flavors and other natural extracts. For more information, visit www.baktoflavors.com. Sohgave!: low glycemic and naturally gluten free Agave nectar is the hottest product in the sweetener category. Sohgave is different––and better. There are over 168 varieties of agave in the world, but only one Blue Weber agave, and only one is Sohgave. Blue Weber agave is grown almost exclusively in Guadalajara, Mexico. Sohgave is a pure, unrefined, low glycemic sweetener––lower on the glycemic scale than sugar, honey, maple syrup and other sweeteners. Still, it is approximately 30 percent sweeter than sugar, so you’ll use less! For this reason, it is an appealing sweetener for people who monitor their glucose intake. Sohgave! Nectar is nature’s subtle Pamela’s Products doubles capacity with new bakery, team members Gluten free leader Pamela’s Products has made a $1 million investment in its California-based bakery, doubling production capacity and consolidating operations under one roof. The expansion coincides with the company’s move to strengthen its marketing team, with a new director of marketing and creative director. At 76,000 square-feet, the new facility spans more than one and a half acres, joining two previously separate bakeries under single management. Housing a new, energy efficient, 120 foot-long tunnel oven and three new wrapping machines, the bakery now accommodates increased production of the company’s full suite of gluten free products. These include cookies and bars, baking mixes, biscotti and readyto-eat cakes. “The new facility reflects [our] energy and enthusiasm for making the most delicious gluten free products anyone can buy,” said Founder and CEO Pamela Giusto-Sorrells. “This milestone also demonstrates our commitment to our loyal fans and our outlook on the future. I look around this gorgeous new bakery and see so many possibilities for sustained growth. It really is a dream come true.” While adding square footage, Pamela’s Products continues to reduce its carbon footprint. The company has switched concentrated sweetener. Remarkably, its flavor is neutral and adaptable for gluten free baking, cooking and grilling. It will not crystallize like honey, and it dissolves quickly in hot or cold. Even better, this all-purpose sweetener is an economical alternative. Why Sohgave? It is the low glycemic agave––tested at 17 glycemic index labs in Toronto; trustworthy, because it is USDA organic Certified and Kosher; trendy, with a BPA free re-useable/recyclable bottle; and tasted and trusted, endorsed by Chef Ania Catalano, author of “Baking with Agave Nectar.” Come see us at booth 2321 or see our website, www.sohgave.com. to PET trays made from recycled plastic, adopted recyclable cardboard packaging and prints with soy inks. The company has also installed energy efficient lighting throughout, and sources local California ingredients whenever possible. Three new team members were also announced. The new Director of Marketing, Jennifer Ramstad, brings more than 14 years of consumer packaged goods marketing experience to Pamela’s Products. Most recently she was Director of Marketing at Barbara’s Bakery/Weetabix North America. Ramstad will take the lead in Pamela’s marketing, public relations, social media and branding strategies for both trade and consumer audiences. With an extensive design background that has netted her more than 150 awards, Creative Director Deborah Shea has collaborated with Pamela’s on the brand’s well-known packaging for more than 16 years. Shea will infuse current and new marketing materials with consistency across all channels including print, Web and package design. The duo joins Vice President of Sales & Marketing Linda Gerwig in a new 1,200 square-foot headquarters office in San Rafael, Calif. Gerwig, who has been with Pamela’s for more than two years, is steering the brand’s overall sales and marketing efforts.
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