"NewFlavors" news and stories

Häagen-Dazs is going back to basics with its new line of ice cream - Five. The company is offering 7 flavors - mint, ginger, coffee, vanilla bean, passion fruit, brown sugar, and milk chocolate - that are made with just 5 ingredients. For example, vanilla is made from skim milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla extract.

Fellow blog Springwise believes that the launching of the Häagen-Dazs Five is symbolic of the current economic environment: "Pure, natural, simple-in today's ailing economic climate, such adjectives hold a nostalgic appeal." But, in such tough economic times, who's willing to spend about $7 on a pint of ice cream?

Granola fans should introduce themselves to Bear Naked granola, if they aren't familiar with it already. The award winning, good-for-you cereal is on of the best selling and best tasting granolas in the country. Made with wholesome, all-natural ingredients, the company's goal is to make sure that their customers enjoy living a healthy lifestyle and eating healthy - starting with granola, of course. Their granolas are hand-crafted in small batches with real whole grains and other "bearly processed and utterly naked ingredients." They have been available in three flavors for a couple of years now: fruit and nut, apple cinnamon and banana nut. This month, the company is rolling out two new flavors, Peanut Butter and Jelly granola and Peak Protein Blueberry Walnut. The peanut butter flavor is designed to taste like one of the most popular sandwiches in the country and to appeal to kids as well as adults. The blueberry flavor is intended to remind eaters of freshly baked blueberry muffins.

Only the blueberry flavor is available at their online store right now, but both should be on store shelves alongside the original flavors within a couple of weeks.