Chimes Ginger Chews : Mango ‘bonbons au gingembre’ – Individually wrapped in plastic foil keeps candy fresh indefinitely. Coated (with tapioca starch) to prevent sticking. Mild ginger heat. Subtle mango flavor. Chewy but not overly so. Dissolves quickly.
Category: Product Reviews
Chocolate
Claudio Corallo São Tomé and Principe Chocolate Sablé 80% com açücar em cristal – raw, gritty, lightly crunchy but good flavor. Thin bar readily melts in the mouth. 100% Puro Cacau massa de cacau – not enough flavor depth to make 100% palatable. Snake & Butterfly Campbell California producers of very nice bars with inclusions….
La Vie Beverages
Purchased a bottle of La Vie Beet Kvass Probiotic Tonic at the Alameda Webster Street Farmers’ Market 2015 March 14 for $5. We found the taste too earthy and salty; the expected slightly sweet beet notes were missing. We did appreciate that the beverage is shelf-stable until opened.
All Chocolate is Dark
Calling milk chocolate ‘chocolate’ is like calling a fish stick doused with malt vinegar and dunked in ketchup ‘fish’. Milk chocolate is something you eat when you don’t care for the taste of chocolate (liquor). And as for white chocolate, that’s as close to chocolate as Kosher gelatin (made from fish bones) is to fish….
Tolerant Foods
Tolerant Foods has come out with a line of organic, single-ingredient (red lentil or black bean) pastas. The form factors currently available are penne (tubes with longitudinal ridges), rotini (corkscrews), and fettuccine. The pastas are high in fiber, gluten-free, and high in protein. In addition to a 12oz thin paperboard box with a small clear…
Seeds of Change
Quinoa & Brown Rice with Garlic The form factor – a microwavable pouch with a tear-off top and an accordion bottom enabling it to stand upright – was definitely convenient. Probably because a pouch contains two 1-cup servings, an eating utensil was not provided with the pouch. Following the microwave cooking instructions resulted in an…
Beanfield’s Chips
The basic Unsalted flavor of Beanfield’s Bean & Rice Chips makes a great, painless substitute for corn-based tortilla chips and a reasonably healthy snack food when the crunchy munchies hit. These baked chips are made of organic, GMO-free beans and rice with a little oil. Probably due to the rice, the texture of these chips is…
Creative Cultures kvass
creativeculturesdrinks.com. Creative Cultures is a Santa Cruz based company producing variations of three types of kvass – a fermented beverage similar to kombucha. I sampled the three types at the Alameda Natural Grocery on 2013 November 24. The Beet Kvass had the expected somewhat sweet earthy beet flavor; I felt that it was lacking interest…
gomacro Grain Bar
gomacro macrobar sunny uplift The texture of this bar was fine: a firm and somewhat chewy substrate interspersed with tender small to medium-sized bits of dried cherries and cranberries. The taste was okay: not as sweet as so many of the bars but with an odd dryness. Nutritionally I’m cool with the oats and almond…
Teas
Pukka Tea Pukka love: okay, okay but pretty weak second soak Pukka relax: ennh, not good second soak Pukka refresh: ennh, not good second soak