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ny. Minute Maid Enhanced Pomegranate Blueberry Flavored 100% Juice Blend has just been rolled out. It’s a blend of ﬁve fruit juices and contains 50mg of omega-3 DHA per 8-oz. serving. “Health and wellness beverages are clearly a trend [and] consumers are looking for personalized products to meet their speciﬁc needs,” says Ray Crockett, spokesman for parent company CocaCola. Heart Wise, released late in 2006, became one of the company’s top 10 sellers within a year, notes Crockett. Targeting speciﬁc health concerns is a winning strategy. – Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor A POT PIE EVEN THE BRITS WOULD LOVE Anyone who’s ever eaten a hot meat pie in the U.K. knows what an authentic one should taste like. Finding such authenticity on this side of the Atlantic is nearly impossible. Which is why Murray’s Chicken, South Fallsburg, N.Y., Baked Chicken Pot Pie got our attention. This is an authentic meat pie, with a perfectly ﬂaky puff-pastry crust, balance of meat to veggies and sauce and overall freshness almost unheard of in a processed pie. Released for national distribution in spring, the product marks the ﬁrst in the company’s new, “no-hassle, meals under 5 minutes line”: Chicken Express. Unlike other offerings, the organic, white-meat chicken is in moist and juicy chunks and makes up the predominant ﬂavor note versus the dehydrated onion and garlic that is so common in competing products. The pies contain no trans fats, are all natural with no nitrates, nitrites or preservatives. Combining tradition and ﬂavor with convenience, two minutes in the microwave are enough to evenly heat the ﬁ lling – amazingly, without affecting the crunch of the pie crust. - David Feder, Managing Editor & Editor-Wellness Foods Contact your Wilden authorized distributor today at www.wildendistributor.com. RESTAURANT QUALITY AND LOADED WITH TOPPINGS Flatbread, made from ﬂattened dough to highlight the ﬂavor of ingredients placed in or on it, is emerging as the hottest thing since sliced bread. According to Mintel Intl., the number of new ﬂatbread products more than tripled to 66 in 2006, compared with 20 in 2005. Combining the taste of a restaurantinspired meal with at-home convenience, Solon, Ohio-based Stouffer’s, a Nestle brand, rolled out Corner Bistro Flatbreads, a line of frozen crispy, seasoned ﬂatbreads topped with a variety of gourWWW.FOODPROCESSING.COM 22 • FOOD PROCESSING NOVEMBER 2007 http://www.wildenpump.com http://www.wildenpump.com http://www.wildendistributor.com http://WWW.FOODPROCESSING.COM

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Food Processing - November 2007

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