Greenmar - Milk Chocolate Almond Toffee

White Salmon, WA-based Greenmar, LLC offers new Milk Chocolate Almond Toffee.

Described as having the same delicate soft toffee crunch as their regular Almond Toffee, but covered with milk chocolate. With 0 percent trans fat, and nothing artificial, a 16oz bag retails for $12.00.

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Jelly Belly - Smoothie Blend

Fairfield, CA-based Jelly Belly is coming out with a new variety, "Smoothie Blend".

The collection of five new Jelly Belly flavors was inspired by the creative juices of the popular smoothie drink revolution. The JB folks took their five most favorite smoothies and turned them into jelly beans.

The mix of flavors includes Strawberry/Banana, Pineapple/Pear, Cherry/Passion Fruit, Mandarin Orange/Mango and Mixed Berry. The secret recipes use real puree of banana, blueberries and oranges, real pear and passion fruit juices.

The company also says the beans have a creamy texture reminiscent of a smoothie.

The new mixture will be in stores nationwide this spring.

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Doritos - Fiery Habanero

Frito-Lay, Inc. is now offering a "Fiery Habanero" flavor of its Doritos Tortilla Chips.

Doritos are now packaged in a new look. It features something called the "Sound Chip". At the top of the bag is something resembling an oscilloscope in fiery red, yellow, and white. It's supposed to represent the loud cracking sound created when you bite into a Doritos tortilla chip.

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Sour Patch Cotton Candy

Beverly Hills, California-based Taste of Nature, Inc. has a new product out called "Sour Patch Cotton Candy".

They licensed the "Sour Patch" brand from Cadbury Adams to come up with this idea. The package states that the candy starts out sour and progresses to sweet.

Comes in flavors of red berry, lemon, lime, and orange.

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Canterbury Naturals - New Varieties

Medina, Washington-based Conifer Specialties, Inc. added ten new varieties to its line of Canterbury Naturals products.

Included is this Chocolate Raspberry Muffin Mix packaged in a kosher dairy stamped, 16 oz. (453g) box.

Other tasty varieties include a Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin Mix, Scone Mix, and Chocolate Brownie Mix. The other newcomers are dinner and lunch products.

The Canterbury Naturals line are meant to give consumers a foundation for quick, healthy and flavorful meals. The line includes vegetarian, vegan and kosher products and ranges in price from $2.25 to $3.25 wholesale.

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Too Good Gourmet - Spring 2006 Collection

San Lorenzo, CA-based Too Good Gourmet has their Spring 2006 Collection online.

The maker of cookies, pretzels, and candies offers their tasty creations in attractive gift boxes of Spring colors, such as this orange tube of Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies.

Check out their collection.

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Cinnamon Bun Caramel Dessert Sauce & Dip

Urbana, OH-based Robert Rothschild Farm, Inc. has a new product, "Cinnamon Bun Caramel Dessert Sauce & Dip".

The gourmet food maker says that one taste of this stuff will remind your taste buds of those big, sweet cinnamon buns you crave! They say to first try it as a topping over warm cinnamon buns. You can also top it on desserts, brownies, ice creams, cheesecake, and poundcakes.

The Sauce is sold in a kosher dairy stamped, 11.1 oz. (314g), glass jar, with a suggested retail price of $7.89.

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Nestle La Laitiere Tourbillon de Fruits

Nestle's French division launched a new sorbet in France that's sounds really yummy.

From there La Laitiere brand, comes "Tourbillon de Fruits", described as a cocktail of fruits. It features a Sorbet Cassis Mousse Mure composition. It's a blend of blackcurrant sorbet and blackberry mousse, with a swirled red fruit sauce.

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Starbucks - Leprechaun Latte

Starbucks announced the return of Leprechaun Latte at locations in New England.

Available only between the period of February 15 through March 17, 2006, the green-colored froth benefits Jumpstart, a national children's charity focused on literacy.

Leprechaun Latte is a peppermint mocha flavored beverage topped with green whipped cream. First introduced in 2002, the Leprechaun Latte was initially available in one downtown Boston store. The popular offering is now enjoyed by customers throughout New England and has become a highly anticipated beverage for Starbucks each St. Patrick's Day season.

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LEGO Shaped Eggos

Kellogg's removed one letter "g" from the old saying, "Leggo my Eggo", with a new co-branded product.

Look carefully at the product photo, and you'll notice a new "LEGO" variety of Eggos shaped into LEGO brick pieces.

The box states, "Toast, break & build!"

No word on when we might see this in stores. The other two new varieties, Blueberry and Flip-Flop, are mentioned on Kellogg's Eggo website, but not the LEGO variety.

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Jelly Belly - Sour Bunnies

Jelly Belly will be offering their Marshmallow Bunnies in a new sour variety for Easter.

The marshmallow base of each rabbit is said to be topped with gummi in flavors of apple, cherry, grape, lemonade, orange and raspberry. Presented in a gold-stripe bag, product literature claims that "each perky bunny is finished in fine sour sanding."

There's also going to be a bag of "Sour Petite Beans" too.

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B.T. McElrath Chocolatier - Valentine Collection

The B.T. McElrath Chocolatier 2006 Valentine Collection of Candies includes new Cherry Hearts and Passion Hearts in 6 piece, 1.75 oz. acrylic boxes.

The Cherry Heart Candy (pictured) are luscious hearts that have centers of black cherry ganache encased in layers of dark chocolate with red chocolate stripes.

The Passion Hearts are heart-shaped, all-natural chocolates that have a tart and tangy passion fruit mousse encased in two delicate layers of white chocolate on a dark chocolate base.

Literature for the product line reads, "Hand-crafted chocolates are made with fresh cream and butter from local dairies and are made with no artificial flavors or preservatives."

The suggested retail price is $10.00 each.

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Popcorn Indiana - New Varieties

Popcorn Indiana has some new varieties of popcorn in the works.

Cheddar Cheese and Sour Cream & Onion are expected soon from the Bethpage, NY-based company. The two new flavors will extend their total taste offerings to three.

Their existing plain variety is coated with pure cane sugar before popping. Just as the kernals pop, the sugar starts to melt, leaving the resulting product with a sweet taste. The popcorn is then dusted with salt.

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Burnt Sugar Sweet Company - Strawberry & White Chocolate

British-based The Burnt Sugar Sweet Co. Ltd. just added a "Strawberry & White Chocolate" variety to its line of Crumbly Fudge products.

It will be available in an eye-catching pink and green 225g pot with a premium price of £3.95.

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357 Extreme Mad Dog Mustard

Billed as the world's hottest mustard, the new concoction dubbed "357 Extreme Mad Dog Mustard" is from Sudbury, MA-based Ashley Food Company.

Designed to turn average mustard users into Mustard Maniacs, this condiment features real Colman's English Mustard, Habanero peppers, fresh ground horseradish, and the hugely popular turmeric.

Walloping scovilles of heat wash over the taste buds and leave a lingering afterglow of heat and flavor. The color is brilliant ochre, the texture stout, and the aroma alone will blow the cobwebs from your head and blast you into an altered state - a galaxy away from regular yellow mustards.

357 Extreme Mad Dog Mustard will soon be available in stores offering fine condiments, and is available for internet ordering right now from the company's website.

Suggested retail – $5.99 oz. bottle.

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