Sunday, March 8, 2015

Trends at Expo West

By Monica Watrous
Source: foodbusinessnews.net



Hemp heats up
From beverages to bars, hemp is a hot ingredient in products featured at Expo West. New offerings from Just Hemp Foods include toasted salted hemp seeds, hemp seed oil and 50% hemp protein powder.
Through its Tempt brand, Living Harvest offers a range of tofu, non-dairy milk and yogurts made with hemp, which is nutrient-dense and vegan-friendly with no known allergens, according to the company. Daily Greens offers two varieties of hemp milk, featuring such ingredients as blue-green algae, coconut nectar, camu camu and wheatgrass.
Evo Hemp makes raw, cold-pressed nutrition bars with hemp seeds in such varieties as pineapple almond, cacao dragonfruit, apple pecan, mango macadamia, cashew cacao and cherry walnut. Two Moms in the Raw has reformulated a line of granola and nut bars to include hemp seeds. The newest addition to the Pure Organic bar lineup is a vanilla almond bar made with quinoa, amaranth, flax and hemp.
Hope Foods, maker of high-pressure processed organic hummus, is rolling out a SuperHemp variety with 1 gram of protein per tablespoon, twice as much as the brand’s original hummus.
The Big Slice brand of ready-to-eat kettle-cooked apples has expanded with a new banana mango and hemp seed variety, featuring 5 grams of protein.
And Attune Foods, L.L.C. is debuting a new maple buckwheat hemp variety of ready-to-eat cereal from the Peace Cereal brand.


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