Limited Edition Italian Mandarin Honey Introduced at Whole Foods

Rigoni di Asiago®, makers of Nocciolata® organic chocolate hazelnut spread, Fiordifrutta® organic fruit spread and Mielbio® organic honey, will be unveiling today its finest MielBio® Italian Mandarin Honey Limited Edition exclusively at Whole Foods Market®. Rigoni di Asiago has manufactured 100 percent organic raw honey since 1922. Rigoni’s honey is all-Italian, carefully processed using only the finest nectars from unpolluted environments. Rigoni honeys are USDA organic certified and Non-GMO verified.

The Mandarin Honey is produced in Calabria, the area of Italy that is most suited for the production of Clementines, also known as Mandarin oranges, at plantations devoted exclusively to organic farming methods for the fruit.  The honey is produced each year between the beginning of April and mid-May in a micro-climate that’s idea for the production of this unique honey. The product’s color varies from off white to translucent pale yellow, and its flavor is delicate and sweet with notes from the fruit whose blossoms produce the nectar from which the honey is made by 26 bee colonies with a total of more than 2,000 production hives.

Once the bees have made the honey, the human part of the production consists in pouring it from drums through a unique filtration system in a patented process that allows the honey to stay at room temperature (below 86 °F), so that it preserves its valuable micro-nutrients, which have antibacterial, antioxidant and antibiotic properties. All of these substances are degraded very rapidly at temperatures above 98.5 °F.

The Mandarin honey is then creamed through a slow process that lasts more than a week to make it perfectly spreadable, with a unique and unmistakable flavor.

About Rigoni di Asiago

The Rigoni brothers in Italy have been making their organic honey line since 1922, in the late ’80s, they developed Fiordifrutta, and in the late ’90s, Nocciolata. In recent years with the establishment of a U.S. presence, they are now sharing these great tastes and products with the people of America. Rigoni di Asiago has based its activity on producing from organic farming. Starting with honey, the company successfully proceeded onto making Fiordifrutta jams, the natural sweetener DolceDì, Nocciolata chocolate and hazelnut spread and most recently, Fruttosa ready-to-eat fruit dessert. RdA works with nature for nature. By choosing organic food, producing or eating it in the long term means sustaining nature’s reserves. It means protecting ourselves and future generations. Rigoni di Asiago made this choice many years ago.
For more information, visit www.rigonidiasiago-usa.com.

Date Lady Organic Date Syrup Now Available in Pacific Northwest Whole Foods Markets

Date Lady™ Organic Date Syrup is now available in Whole Foods markets in the Northern California and Pacific Northwest regions through Renaissance Specialty Foods of South San Francisco and Crown Pacific Fine Foods of Kent, Wash., respectively.

Date Lady Date Syrup as well as the newly introduced Caramel Sauce are USDA Organic and kosher certified, and are naturally sweetened by the dates themselves, said Colleen Sundlie, company founder. With more potassium per ounce than bananas, date syrup is increasingly finding favor with U.S. consumers as a whole food and an alternative sweetener both on the table as a condiment as well as for cooking and baking, Sundlie said. It also has become more sought after as an ingredient by manufacturers interested in finding substitutes for sweeteners that consumers are tending to avoid, she added.

Date Lady Date Syrup contains only 100 percent organic dates, and Date Lady Caramel Sauce contains only three ingredients with no added sweeteners. The sweetness comes from the dates themselves, Sundlie said. The Date Syrup and Caramel Sauce are packaged in 12-ounce jars with suggested retail prices of $7.99 and $8.99 respectively. Whole organic dates are available in a resealable 8-ounce pouch with a suggested retail price of $6.99.

More information and recipes are available online at www.ILoveDateLady.com or by calling (417) 414-2282.

Date Lady Products Gain Traction in Mid-Atlantic Markets

Date Lady organic date syrup and the newly introduced caramel sauce are now available in Mom’s Organic Market stores through Garden Spot Distribution of New Holland, Penn.

In addition to the 10 Mom’s Organic Market outlets in Virginia and Maryland, the retail availability of Date Lady Date Syrup and Date Lady Caramel Sauce also has expanded by another 50 independent specialty stores in the Northeast over the past few months, said Colleen Sundlie, company founder.  Both the Date Syrup and Caramel Sauce are USDA Organic and kosher certified and are naturally sweetened by the dates themselves.

“We’ve been very pleased with the pace at which our retail sales have increased,” Sundlie said.  “Consumers have discovered how delicious date syrup is and have told us they appreciate that it offers more nutritional value than traditional syrups for ice cream or pancakes,” she says.  “It also makes a great alternative sweetener for baked goods and adds a complex depth of flavor to gravies and other savory sauces.  Our Date Lady Caramel Sauce is the only caramel sauce we know of that contains no added sweeteners.  Its sweetness and luxurious texture come from the dates.”  Sundlie has published many of her own and her customers’ recipes online at www.ILoveDateLady.com, including cakes, muffins, cookie bars, barbecue and pizza sauces, and salad dressings.

Date Lady Date Syrup and Caramel Sauce are packaged in 12-ounce jars with suggested retail prices of $7.99 and $8.99 respectively.  Whole organic dates also are available in a resealable 8-ounce pouch with a suggested retail price of $6.99.

More information is available online at www.ILoveDateLady.com or by calling (417) 414-2282.