Wickedly Good Salad—Proof Tat
Anyone Can be a Saucy Mama®.
Saucy Mama's® not alone in
the kitchen. Our fantastic
food blogger friends
constantly inspire us with
innovative—and saucily
delicious—recipes.
Like this crab salad
from Kristy Bernardo at
thewickednoodle.com;
fantastic favor and
low calories prove
that anyone can be a
Saucy Mama®.
Some sauces, such as Skinny Chef's,
boast superfruits like pomegranate.
Natural Ingredients. Nutrition labels
are more important than ever. Consumers
are looking for clean ingredients that are
easy to understand. According to Mintel, 52
percent of condiment users are interested in
products that are natural or free of artificial
additives or preservatives.
Specialty producers have listened,
swapping out high-fructose corn syrup in
favor of natural sweeteners like sugar, honey
and molasses. "Many superfoods like hot
chiles, berries and sweet-tasting vegetables
allow chefs to eliminate the need for highfructose corn syrup, as well as sodium, since
these ingredients provide interesting, complex taste and hints of sweetness with less
sugar content," explains Jennifer Iserloh,
a chef and owner of Skinny Chef Natural
Foods, which recently launched a line of
sauces boasting superfoods like blueberries,
chipotle and goji.
Producers have also been responding to
gluten-free, vegan and other dietary needs.
Gator Ron's, for one, recently introduced a
line of sauces that are gluten-free, dairy-free,
non-GMO and kosher.
This doesn't appear to come at the cost
of flavor, however. "From an artisan sauce
producer perspective, the first propriety
is to enhance the flavor of barbecue meats
with clean flavors, and not mask them with
artificial flavors and colors," explains Alan
Watts, owner of MenWhoDine.com. And
Make every Meal
Extraordinary!
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