Company: Kashi Co., La Jolla, Calif.

Kashi Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies

Website: www.kashi.com

Introduced: October

Distribution: National

Suggested Retail: $3.29 for a 8.5-oz. box

Product Snapshot: Kashi’s Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies prove that snacking can be indulgent and nutritious. The tasty cookie mixes rich cocoa and creamy almond butter with dark chocolate chips, crunchy almonds and Kashi’s signature combination of 7 Whole Grains for soft-baked, natural goodness. Each cookie offers 10 g. of whole grains, 4 g. of fiber and 3 g. of protein and is free of preservatives, artificial flavors and colors and high fructose corn syrup. The new flavor joins Oatmeal Dark Chocolate, Happy Trail Mix and Oatmeal Raisin Flax.

Ingredients: Whole-grain oats, rolled whole-grain blend (hard red wheat, oats, rye, triticale, barley), Kashi 7 Whole Grain Flour (whole: oats, hard red wheat, rye, brown rice, triticale, barley, buckwheat), evaporated cane juice crystals, semisweet chocolate (organic evaporated cane juice, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, ground vanilla beans), honey, brown rice syrup, almonds, expeller pressed canola oil, chocolate liquor, cocoa, almond butter (almonds), chicory root fiber, oat fiber, vegetable glycerin, baking soda, natural flavor, soy lecithin, salt, mixed tocopherols for freshness, monocalcium phosphate, peanut flavor, walnuts, eggs, nonfat milk.