Thin Mint Ice Cream and Some New Products

Thank goodness it's Friday! This week has gone by fast, obviously, and I'm happy that it's going to be partly sunny today :) Here are some of my latest food experiences:

New Ice Cream Flavor
Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookie Delight
I probably added about 6 crumbled up cookies.
Then I served it up with some crunchy granola!


Recent New Products (well, for me at least)
Pom Juice
Flavor: Pomegranate Blueberry!



Health Benefits: Both blueberries and pomegranates are high in antioxidants (similar to the antioxidants in red wine), can help reduce heart disease risk factors, and can also help decrease high blood pressure (among several other super benefits).
The Bad: I wouldn't ever recommend this as a drink. Why? 1 cup has 160 calories, 33 grams of sugar, and zero fiber. Compared to the whole pomegranate, which has 140 calories, 6 grams of fiber, and 24 grams of sugar (in one cup), and whole blueberries, which have 80 calories, 13 grams of sugar, and 4 grams of fiber (3/4 cup).

Taste: SWEET, as in way too sweet, but since I am not planning on drinking it as a beverage I am ok with the sweet taste. My plan is to use this juice to make:
Smoothies
Popsickles
Ice cream (maybe...)

Laughing Cow Cheese Wedges
Flavor: Light French Onion

Health Benefits: If you only stick to one a day, these things can be a great addition to a healthy diet. Why? They are only 35 calories each, they provide 6% daily value of calcium, 2.5 grams of protein, and only 2 grams of fat! Be careful though, they are super tasty and it's easy to eat more than one in a sitting. Why is this bad? Well, they also provide eleven percent of your daily sodium needs, and 1 gram of saturated fat. Click on the link above to check out their website and some awesome recipes.

Taste: If I didn't know the flavor was French onion, I would have guessed it! In other words, the taste was just as I expected and the texture was creamy and delightful.

Fiber One Cereal
Flavor: Caramel Delight

Health Benefits: Remember when I said I was made at Fiber One because they put aspartame in their cereal? Well, not this one! The first ingredient is whole grain wheat, which explains the 9 grams of fiber (3 of which is soluble) in one cup. The cereal is fortified, which means it also provides 25% of several other important vitamins and minerals, PLUS it has 3 grams of protein per serving. Unfortunately the second ingredient is sugar, which explains the 10 grams of sugar per serving (no bueno), but the high amount of fiber makes up for that in my opinion :)

Taste: Have you ever had Cinnamon Toast Crunch? If you have, and you loved it as much as I did, you will LOVE this cereal. I mix 1/2 cup with Cheerios (off brand) because Fiber One is expensive :(

Well I'm off to finish my week. I have to complete the poster I am designing for the Russel Klein Symposium next week. This is a symposium organized in memory of an OSU professor who did research related to foods and cancer. Ironically he died of cancer about 6 years ago. The symposium is meant for nutrition students to display all the hard work they have been doing for the past year or two. The posters are large (about 46 inches by 56 inches) and that means they have to be PERFECT before I print the final product. Anyway, have a great day and thanks for reading!