May 16, 2007

On the Market: New Products, Etc.

Here are several new products, trends and items of interest that can be found on the market. Perhaps you’ve already seen them in stores or through your vendor representatives. Click on a link for more information.

Equipment:

Mecelli Chocolate Mold Co. They had a booth (#73) at the April PMCA Production Conference.
Aasted-Mikroverk, Ltd. Their new product, Chocometer, is a portable, battery operated temper meter with electronic colling, color screen, and built in printer. Generates the temper curve, and calculates the CTU. On page, go to “Chocolate Equipment” then click “Chocometer.”

Chocolate Products:

Hershey’s Antioxidant and Whole Bean Chocolate Bars.
Florida Tropic Dark 70% Cacao Break-a-Part Oranges. From SweetWorks, Inc. Website from manufacturer Whetstone Chocolates of St. Augustine.
Guittard Chocolate without cocoa butter. Quetzalcoatl 72% Cacao Mass Bittersweet Chocolate.
Hershey’s Cinnamon Baking Chips.

Candy and Confections:

Wrigley’s 5 Gum: “Sensory Benefits.” Debuts this summer, this is a line of sugarfree gum in three flavors with added sensory enhancements that the company says “you can feel as you chew” (from their press release). Flavors: Rain (tingling spearmint flavor), Cobalt (cooling spearmint flavor), and Flare (warming cinnamon flavor). 1.49 SRP for single 15 stick packs and 3.49 SRP for 3-packs. Packaging is in sleek black wrappers with stylized “5” on it. Photo from newscom.com.
Candy Clay Dough.

Prepared Desserts: