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Organic oreos‘ve been around for a while now, but I though you’d wanna know about the new organic junk food that’s hitting the market. A few things I found at the Natural Products Expo West:
Organic pop tarts, aka Nature’s Path Frosted Toaster Pastries. The bulk of the pastry’s basically made of sugars, including organic evaporated cane juice, organic evaporated cane juice invert, organic dextrose, organic honey, and organic molasses.
Similar but somewhat healthier: Revolution Foods’ Jammy Sammy sandwich bars. Made with whole grains, these looked and tasted more like large fig newton type cookies.
Organic cotton candy, aka Bernod’s Spun City Certified Organic Cotton Candy. Made with organic evaporated cane juice, natural flavor, and natural color, the cotton candy was pretty popular with the Expo crowd.
Oddly, I feel better about the totally nutrition-deficient cotton candy — which’d really only be eaten occasionally at birthday parties and such — than I do about the pop tarts, which some people eat every day for breakfast…. Would you feed these to your kids? Eat them yourself?
I’ve noticed that a lot of organic or all natural candies and junk food have more sugars in them than the conventional ones. (Except for cotton candy, of course, which is all sugar, all the time.)
I’ve had the all natural toaster pastries and found them far too sweet and lacking in flavor.
I did like the Jammy Sammy, but they were very messy and could see that kids would have sticky, oily fingers after eating those.
(Take a look at the difference between those organic Sunspire Sundrops and M&Ms sometime.)
As far as “health food/junk food” I’m partial to really good dark chocolate covered nuts. Satisfying, filling and pure decadence.
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Comment by cybele — March 17, 2009 @ 11:02 am
My favorite health food snacks are the soy ice cream sandwiches! Tufutti makes them (I am pretty sure) and the organic fruit leather is a great snack!
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Comment by Robert Stockham — March 17, 2009 @ 12:56 pm
A cookie is a cookie — and too many will make you feel icky, organic or not!
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Comment by Lisa — March 17, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
Those toaster pastries have been around for years.
Comment by Anonymous — March 17, 2009 @ 7:07 pm
Everything in moderation, right? Organic cotton candy isn’t a diet staple but its fun once in a while, right? And better to have the sugar be from an organic source than not (if you’re curious you can get it at http://www.shoporganic.com – along with lots of other healthier foods). As far as other ‘healthy junk’ i’m partial to Oskri bars – the coconut ones are like the inside of mounds and the sesame ones are like those little sugary sesame candies my grandmother always had around.
Comment by rachel — March 18, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Bernod SpunCity was at the recent Expo West. They had quite a crowd eagar to taste their newest flavor “Cherry Vanilla” their tag line “A Nearly Guilt Free Indulgence” sums it all up….
Comment by Gerald — March 20, 2009 @ 10:04 pm
Cybele — Interesting note re: the extra sugar in “natural” or organic candies! It’s sort of like the fat free yogurts that often are higher in calories than the regular stuff. Luckily there are more health conscious organic “junk food” products too — cookies that aren’t so overwhelmingly sweet, etc :)
Comment by Siel — March 24, 2009 @ 9:46 am