Unboxed: 10 foods and beverages with 5 ingredients or less
Products with few ingredients signal health and quality to discerning natural shoppers.
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Per the brand name, Bare’s crunchy baked fruit snacks contain just three simple ingredients: bananas, pineapples and strawberries.
This snack company’s new sea salt-dusted plantain chips feature organic plantains, organic coconut oil and organic Himalayan pink salt, making them paleo, vegan and grain free.
Inside this take-along packet are tender USDA Organic dried banana slices that hail from small-scale farmers in Columbia.
Even traditionally conventional companies understand the power of products with few ingredients, like Nestle’s new USDA Organic semi-sweet morsels, made with cane sugar, chocolate and cocoa butter, and free from the top eight allergens.
Nudo’s delicious olive oil is from a collaboration of small olive groves in Italy, where traditional farming and milling methods are the norm. In an impressively transparent move, consumers can “adopt” a tree from one of Nudo’s suppliers, and then receive the oil from that tree’s annual harvest throughout the year.
These premium canned mussels are sourced from small-scale regenerative aquaculture farmers living in Galicia, Spain. In the absence of a USDA Organic certification for seafood, Patagonia prioritizes the EU Organic seal to ensure mussel cultivation uses no pesticides or other agricultural chemicals in their production. Just a bit of olive oil and natural wood smoke brings the mussel flavor to life.
Infuse your water with a sweet-bright taste. Each packet contains just organic honeybush and organic coconut flavor.
A functional, tart sip designed to be consumed as a wellness shot. The beautiful combination of raw and organic apple cider vinegar, organic honey and organic matcha makes for an antioxidant-packed, digestion-aiding elixir.
Watermelon seeds are rich in iron, protein and monounsaturated fats, making them a solid choice for sprinkling atop salads and soups, or blending into pesto. Go Raw's version features just organic sprouted watermelon seeds and Celtic sea salt.
Green-tinted pasta made with one gluten-free, grain-free ingredient: Organic green soybeans. One serving delivers 34 grams of protein!
Green-tinted pasta made with one gluten-free, grain-free ingredient: Organic green soybeans. One serving delivers 34 grams of protein!
Chefs know that if you're going to place a dish on a menu with very few ingredients, it better contain the best quality ingredients you can find...
Similarly, natural manufacturers who prioritize products with just a few ingredients also care about conscious sourcing methods, certification labels such as USDA Organic and smart formulations to honor an ingredient's inherent flavor.
Some examples: Patagonia Provisions’ new line of mussels are sourced from EU Organic-certified mussel farms in Galicia, Spain, and are packed in their own mussel broth, organic olive oil and wood smoke for a memorable eating experience. The olives used for Nudo’s Italian olive oil are picked by hand and pressed via mechanical (not chemical) means the same day they are harvested—the result is a spicy, fruity oil that can make a meal with a loaf of bread and a pinch of sea salt.
Aside from quality, products with very few ingredients (here we highlight ones that contain five or fewer), can signal clean label to consumers. Performance-based additives such as xanthan gum or maltodextrin usually don’t have a place in these products.
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