Lean Cuisine Brick Oven Style Pizza
Company: Nestlé USA, Solon, Ohio
Introduced: August
Distribution: National
Suggested Retail: $3.49 for a 6-oz. pizza
Product Snapshot: Now, consumers can eat something delicious and tasty with new Lean Cuisine Brick Oven Style pizzas. Boasting golden, crispy crusts and savory toppings such as white meat chicken, red onions, Cremini mushrooms and garlic, each variety — Roasted Garlic Chicken pizza, Gourmet Mushroom pizza and BBQ-recipe chicken pizza — will have people exclaiming, “It’s not just lean, it’s cuisine.”
Ingredients: (BBQ-recipe chicken pizza): Crust (enriched flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, soybean oil, sugar, yeast, salt, flavor [dextrose, cornstarch, natural flavor]), bbq sauce (water, tomato paste, seasoning [brown sugar, dried molasses {refinery syrup, cane mill molasses}, modified food starch, potassium chloride, caramel color, spices, dried onion, dried garlic, flavor {maltodextrin, smoke flavor}, sunflower oil, salt, natural flavor, smoke flavor], sunflower oil, salt, natural flavor, smoke flavor], vinegar, soybean oil), cooked white meat chicken (white meat chicken, water, seasoning [salt, flavors, maltodextrin, modified food starch, sugar, yeast extract, flavor {maltodextrin, mesquite smoke flavor}, spices, natural flavors, caramel color, citric acid], isolated soy protein, modified food starch, chicken flavor [dried chicken broth, chicken powder, natural flavor], sodium phosphate), reduced fat mozzarella cheese]), onion, pasteurized processed Cheddar cheese (cultured skim milk and milk, water, potassium phosphate, salt, sodium citrate, whey, sorbic acid, cream, apo-carotenal and beta-carotene color, enzymes, sodium phosphate, lactic acid), cilantro, sulfiting agents.
Lender’s New York Style Bagels
Company: Pinnacle Foods Group Inc., Mountain Lakes, N.J.
Introduced: August
Distribution: National
Suggested Retail: $3.19 for a package of six pre-sliced bagels
Product Snapshot: Lender’s offers a bagel for every taste, especially with its latest introduction, New York Style bagels. The crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside treat will be baked in regional bakeries and shipped fresh to fresh-bread aisles in supermarkets nationwide. Available in Everything, Plain, Cinnamon Raisin and Blueberry flavors, Lender’s even is offering varieties that suit health-minded munchers: 100% Whole Wheat, Whole Grain-Multi Grain, Whole Grain Plain, and Whole Grain Cinnamon Raisin.
Ingredients: Whole wheat flour, water, high fructose corn syrup, vital wheat gluten, yeast. Contains 2% or less of: salt, preservatives (calcium propionate, potassium sorbate), soybean oil, leavening (monocalcium phosphate), mono and diglycerides, dough conditioners (calcium sulfate, l-cysteine, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, calcium iodate), caramel color, guar gum, enzyme.
Oreo Dulce de Leche Caramel Creme Cookies
Company: Kraft Foods, Northfield, Ill.
Introduced: July
Distribution: National
Suggested Retail: $3.29 for a 13-oz. box of cookies
Product Snapshot: Oreo cookies are giving snackers of all ages something different to dunk with the limited edition introduction of Oreo Dulce de Leche cookies. Each chocolate sandwich cookie is filled with indulgent caramel crème, for a treat that tastes like it’s made in heaven.
Ingredients: Sugar, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate {Vitamin B1}, riboflavin {Vitamin B2}, folic acid), high oleic canola oil and/or palm oil and/or canola oil, cocoa (processed with alkali), high-fructose corn syrup, wheat starch, baking soda, salt, soy lecithin (emulsifier), artificial color (yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake, blue 1 lake), natural and artificial flavor, chocolate.
Old El Paso Flavored Stand ’n Stuff Taco Shells
Company: General Mills, Minneapolis
Introduced: August
Distribution: National
Suggested Retail: $1.89 for a 5-oz. box of 10 shells
Product Snapshot: Mexican food will never be the same thanks to new Old El Paso Salsa and Nacho flavored Stand ’n Stuff taco shells from General Mills. Designed to meet the taste demands of each member of the dinner table, the shells make a tasty alternative to plain corn shells. Easy to fill, hold and eat, they won’t even tip over due to their specially designed shape! Now, making tacos is a fun activity the whole family can enjoy.
Ingredients: Limed corn, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, tomato powder, onion powder, garlic powder, spice, gum arabic, maltodextrin, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, coconut oil, modified corn starch, colored with artificial color and Red 40, natural and artificial flavor.