Nestle 100 Grand Candy Bar - with Peanuts

Nestle USA, Inc. has a new "limited edition" Nestle 100 Grand Candy Bar that contains peanuts.

The wrapper suggests that adding peanuts enhances the already incredible combination of chewy caramel, milk chocolate, and crispy crunchies. There is also information that Nestle is working on a dark chocolate variety of the Nestle 100 Grand.

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Wonka SweeTarts Tangy Rope Candy with Nerds

Nestle USA, Inc. has a new rope-based confection dubbed, "Wonka SweeTarts Tangy Rope Candy with Nerds". It contains a sour cherry filling, and featuring embedded Nerds.

The chewy sour cherry filling combined with the crunchy Nerds, gives the Wonka SweeTarts Rope Candy a chewy & crunchy texture, while the licorice rope, the cherry filling, and rainbow Nerds creates a complex flavor, sure to challenge the most discriminating pre-pubescent sugar freaks.

Rope with Nerds is sold in a 2.1 oz. (59.5g) plastic wrapper, and are available at 7-11 stores.

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Xcyto Energy Drink

Xcyto Energy Drink is among the latest energy drinks to hit the market.

Introduced in the USA by Benicia, CA-based, CytoSport, it features L-citrulline to enhance blood flow, whichs helps accelerate the transport of other energy ingredients, taurine, glucuronolactone, and caffeine to the brain and body.

Slightly carbonated, Xcyto is offered in regular and sugar free varieties and is sold in a 10.5 fl. oz. (311ml) can.

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No Fear Caffeinated Candy Bar

What happens when you take a Snickers candy bar and inject it with caffeine, taurine, and L-Argenine? You get a "No Fear Super Bar", that's what.

Carlsbad, California-based Next Proteins, the company that makes it, says it's the world's first caffeinated candy bar. Well, at least they're not trying to pass it off as an "energy bar" like most others do.

Marketed under the No Fear brand name, it based on a familiar combination of milk chocolate, caramel and peanuts. Sold in a 3.5 oz. (100g) laminate wrapper, it has a suggested retail price of $1.99, and are available at 7-11 stores.

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Nabisco ChocoStix

New from Kraft Foods North America Inc., are Nabisco ChocoStix, Chocolate Wafer Sticks, pretty much like Twix.

Currently being offered in two varieties, Oreo and Nutter Butter, they're made with real chocolate, and sold in single-serve, 1.48 oz. (42g), 2-count laminate wrappers.

They'll become available in January 2006.

Via CSP News

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Domino's Pizza Giving Out Free Coca-Cola Zero

Domino's Pizza announced today that it will give away a free 20oz bottle of Coca-Cola Zero to any customer who buys one of their pizzas.

The promotion starts this Saturday (Dec 17) and lasts only through December 23, or until supplies last, and is only good at those stores that sell Coca-Cola.

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Heinz Holiday Ketchup Packets

The H.J. Heinz Company is getting into the Christmas spirit by releasing a limited edition set of ketchup packets with holiday designs.

Now available in restaurants nationwide, the specially designed packets feature fun, artistic interpretations of Heinz's red ketchup avoiding the "winter blues."

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Pringles in a Bag

Here's a variety of Pringles potato crisps that comes in a bag.

It's from China.

I remember when Pringles first came out, back in the 1970's I think it was, and it attracted attention for the fact that it came in a can. The company ran a large media campaign that the can protected each "potato crisp" thus ensuring you get only whole pieces, and not broken ones.

I guess broken potato chips isn't a big deal in China.

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PaperMints Cool Caps

Caramelos Cerdan, S.L. launched a new product called, "Cool Caps" under the PaperMints brand name.

It's a breath freshener that works in two ways. The outer coating is a strong mint that melts on the tongue, while the inner core is designed to melt into your stomach to fight bad breath from the inside out.

Cool Caps is available throughout Europe, Middle East, and South America.

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Trolli Glotzer - Caramel Eyeballs

Trolli Iberica, SA launched a new candy called "Glotzer", under the Trolli brand name, and distributed in Spain by King Regal.

It's a jelly caramel that looks like an eyeball. Kids can now hold an eyeball between their thumb and index finger, and take a bite out of someone's eyeball.

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SmartBoost Clear Caffeine Instant Energy Mix

SmartBoost Clear Caffeine Instant Energy Mix is available in the USA in an unflavored version by Bluenote Inc.

Sold in individual single-serve packets, it can be added to any beverage to create a healthy, high performance energy drink. SmartBoost contains vitamin C (15mg) and all natural clean-caffeine (99mg equivalent to a strong cup of coffee) in a soluble, tasteless powder delivered in a long narrow sugar-style packet.

It claims to have no calories, carbs, sugars, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, sodium or acids. SmartBoost's caffeine is derived from Indian coffee beans using only natural substances found in many fruits to facilitate extraction and has been stringently tested for heavy metals and other impurities.

The suggested retail price is 89 cents per packet.

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Topps Baby Bottle Pop

New from Topps Co. Inc., is the Baby Bottle Pop.

It's shaped like a baby bottle, except the nipple is actually hard candy. Inside the bottle is powdered candy. Another variety contains "candy crunch", a tiny sized candy pebbles.

You first suck on the nipple and get it all wet. Then you dip it into the candy powder, and lick it all off. I guess being that today's kids are being "babied" by their parents, it's only fitting they get to act it out as well.

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Potent Food Maca Bar

Marketed under the Potent Food label, "the Organic Maca Bar" is marketed as a delicious, high-end, gourmet food from Portland, OR-based Potent Food, Inc.

Available in Organic Maple Chunk Fudge, Organic White Chocolate Chunk Fudge and Organic Cherry Chunk Fudge flavors, the bar is formulated to highlight the distinctive taste of organic Maca (whatever that is).

Each single serving 57g, laminate wrapped Bar has a suggested retail price of $2.99 and is said to contain 5000mg of organic Maca.

Made from the "finest organic Dutch cocoa," literature promotes the bar as an "Organic certified - Kosher (Parve) certified - Vegan certified - Wheat-free, Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Soy-free, Peanut-free, Corn-free, Yeast-free, Doctor formulated - Cold-processed - Fortified with rice protein and Omega-3 rich flax - Cholesterol-free - No trans-fat - Only healthy, naturally occurring oils."

Sounds like junk food to me!

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Buffalo Wing Flavored Pretzels

Snyder's of Hanover comes out with a new variety of its line of pretzel pieces called, "Hot Buffalo Wing".

They're available in "super single serve" 3.5 oz. (99.2g) foil bags with a USA suggested retail price of 99 cents each.

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Frappio Energy Beverage

Frappio Espresso Latte Energy Beverage is offered in a single-serve 15 fl. oz. (444ml) can by Caffe del Mar.

The label is flagged, "Reduce hunger - Gain energy - Stay alert." It is said to be a melding of natural caffeine in the coffee beans and an herbal extract, to be the first beverage to bridge the gap between coffee products and energy drinks and to have an outstanding coffee taste of the Turkish/Sumatran flavor profile that "is deep and rich with a smooth and creamy last on the palate."

Targeted toward young women and men, with a suggested retail price of $2.39.

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