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China Mist Pure Bottled Organic Teas provide a gourmet restaurant ice tea experience without sweeteners, additives or artificial preservatives, according to the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company.

Looking to keep the pressure on Coca-Cola’s Vitaminwater, competitor, SoBe Lifewater, is getting social the summer. The PepsiCo-owned brand will lean heavily on traditional ads as well as an extensive social media campaign, encompassing such sites as Twitter and Facebook, to promote its two new flavors: Acai Fruit Punch and Mango Melon.

NSF International and the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) recently announced their joint roles in administering the Smart Choices Program™ — a new nutritional front-of-package labeling program.

Tropicana is promoting healthy habits by inviting consumers to “Get your fruit on!”

A certain amount of trade-off is expected when we make healthier food choices. A low-fat cereal bar is not the same as a double fudge brownie — no matter how you slice it. But if you are going to sit down to that cereal bar instead of the brownie, you want it to be the best-tasting cereal bar around, right?

Just in time for July 4th celebrations, the iconic Southern Comfort brand has launched two premium pre-mixed, ready-to-serve cocktails for easy at-home entertaining: Southern Comfort Hurricane Cocktail and Southern Comfort Sweet Tea Cocktail.

Another consumer-friendly on-package consumer nutrition labeling program has been unveiled, this time by NSF International and the American Society for Nutrition (ASN), which have teamed up to administer the new Smart Choices Program. The nutrition labeling program will aim to provide manufacturers and retailers with a reliable front-of-pack icon plus calorie information that helps consumers recognize smarter food and beverage products within product categories.

Tortilla chips with olives and capers, breakfast cheese, and organic blood orange soda are among the 11 finalists for the 2009 sofi Award for Outstanding New Product of 2009. The sofi Awards, presented by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, honor the outstanding specialty foods and beverages of the year in 33 categories. “sofi” stands for specialty outstanding food innovation.