Food Network Magazine - (02)February 2020

26 FOOD NETWORK MAGAZINE ●JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020

It’s a Date

The FDA is now enforcing a

rule that requires major food

companies to list added sugars

on nutrition labels. So some

companies are swapping

processed sugar for natural

sweeteners like honey, maple

syrup and...dates. Brands

including Wanna Date?, Date

Lady and Just Date are selling

date-based spreads, syrups and

sauces. Meanwhile, the super-

sweet fruit has become a staple

in better-for-you brownie, cookie

and truffle recipes. Medjool dates

are definitely more nutritious

than refined sweeteners, but

take note: A serving of two still

has 32 grams of sugar!

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SWEETS

TUFF

Jägermeister

From $25; retailers

nationwide

Liqueur

$10 for four;

lacolombehardcoldbrew

.com for stores

Malt Drink

$13 for six;

amazon.com

Snack Bar

Buzz

Wo r t h y

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CAFFEI

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Sales of packaged coffee drinks like canned lattes and bottled cold brew

increased 16 percent over the last year, and the caffeine craze has

inspired some unexpected mashups.

Seeing 2020

Here they are: the trendiest foods, drinks

and products for the year ahead.

Big Cheese

Thanks to the keto diet—and America’s obsession with low-carb

snacks—we’re now eating cheese like potato chips. The snack

aisles are full of cheese in the form of puffs (Cheesepop) and crisps

(ParmCrisps). And one cheesy snack has made a big comeback:

Just the Cheese baked cheese bars exploded in popularity

during the Atkins craze of the early 2000s but disappeared when

the diet fell out of fashion. The company relaunched with

keto-friendly packaging in 2017, and now its bites and bars are

among the best-selling cheese snacks on Amazon!

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SNACK

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Coffee + Cacao

Granola

$6; cacaovita.com

Granola

Oikos

Pro Fuel

$2.50; retailers

nationwide

dairy drink

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