Dark-roast peanut butter
Al Sicherman, Star Tribune
Dark-roast peanut butter
Organic grocery products is not a category in which we expect to see new flavor choices, but that’s what we have from Santa Cruz, which offers light- and dark-roasted organic peanut butter — in both creamy and crunchy, of course.
Find Santa Cruz products (a Smucker’s brand) at Whole Foods, co-ops and some mainstream supermarkets and health-food stores. But don’t bother if you don’t want to stir and refrigerate your peanut butter — or if you favor saltiness or sweetness therein. Both versions have 50 milligrams of sodium and 1 gram of sugar per 2-tablespoon serving; typical supermarket peanut butter has three times as much of each.
Not cracker fantasy
Two no-nonsense cracker variants caught Mr. Tidbit’s eye this week: Keebler’s Town House Toppers are Town House crackers (slightly reformulated), with a raised rim to keep toppings in place (or, as the package puts it, “designed to simplify your topping experience”). Choose garlic & herb or Mr. Tidbit’s perennial flavor favorite, original.
And there’s a new flavor of Triscuits, cracked pepper & olive oil — and they actually taste like pepper and olive oil!
Flavored sparkling cider
Although the previous item might not suggest it, Mr. Tidbit usually is unmoved by new products that are the 17th new flavor of an existing product. But the first departure from “original” of something as basic as sparkling apple cider — especially if it’s from what is said to be Minnesota’s largest apple orchard — probably is worth mentioning. So:
Pepin Heights now offers raspberry and black cherry versions of its 100-percent-juice, no-added-sugar sparkling apple cider. (They do that by mixing apple juice from concentrate, raspberry or black-cherry concentrate and carbonated water.)
AL SICHERMAN