Brands to Visit at the Fancy Food Show 2020

Be sure to try products made by these brands we admire at the Fancy Food Show. Email amrit@cmyk.vc to add your brand here, and subscribe to our newsletter for our show recap. We also curated a list of restaurants and retail in San Francisco for your trip.

21 Healthy Vegan Snacks That Are Jam-Packed with Flavor

Eat a few dates split in the middle and stuffed with peanut butter and topped with shredded coconut, and you’ll see why you need to load up on a 2-pack of Joolies ($24). Dates are a great source of disease-fighting antioxidants and fiber. Find more vegan snacks on Amazon.

35 Essential Paleo-Friendly Groceries to Stock Up on — Whether or Not You’ve Gone Paleo

Because you’re supposed to avoid processed foods on the Paleo diet (ahem, our ancestors did not have them!), you’ll want to choose snacks that are as close to their whole food state as possible. You also want to avoid additives and “non-natural” sugars. Here are a few Paleo snacks we couldn’t live without.

What to put in your oatmeal if you can’t do another day of raisins and cinnamon without falling asleep into your bowl

Bored of honey and agave? Shake things up by sweetening your oatmeal with date syrup instead. “Date syrup is made from the superfruit dates, so it’s naturally rich in stress-relieving magnesium and potassium,” says Beckerman, who’s also the author of The Better Period Food Solution and host of Well+Good’s You Versus Food. “There are a lot of fun brands to try, but I’ve been choosing Joolies’s organic medjool date syrup because they don’t add any sweeteners or concentrates to their final product, so it’s good in my book.”

The 9 best brands we saw at Expo West 2019
Last week, we walked the worlds largest tradeshow treadmill, also known as Expo West. This is the Superbowl of the natural and organic food industry, with some 85,000 folks in attendance and thousands of brands for four days of delicious designs and samples galore.

Infused water ideas to help make drinking h20 more flavorful — and beneficial
It’s hot out. And if the heat isn’t reason enough to make you up your water intake, you should probably know that being better hydrated also means having clearer and more youthful skin, more energy, a boosted immune system, and healthy joints.

The most exciting new groceries that hit shelves this june
School’s out, and so are a bunch of new supermarket products! I tried 50 new groceries that just came out in June to find the best ones just for you.

Joolies: organic medjool dates
We’ll Be the Best Date You Ever Had. Throw out any baggage from your past date-ing experiences. Joolies will change the way you snack and smoothie!

Joolies brand debuts at Expo West
Joolies, a new organic medjool date company is celebrating its official launch at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California this March.

Bringing organic medjool dates straight from farm to global snacking market
Joolies will be co-exhibiting in the North Hall, Booth N2330 with The Osso Good Company, another Venice Brands company.

US and Europe first to see new organic medjool date brand
A California medjool date grower is looking to reinvigorate the category and move dates into the position of a desirable lifestyle brand as they launch their new date products.

27 healthy and easy-to-pack snacks to take on-the-go
Why it's great: Dates are an excellent source of antioxidants and fiber, said Zerling. “These dates are grown in the U.S. which guarantees freshness and that they are organically grown,” who suggested wrapping two to three up in a coconut wrap with 1 tablespoon of Wild Friends Nut Butter to create the perfect mini travel sandwich.

Launching a Direct-to-Consumer Farm Business through Branding with Dave Kohl, Founder of Joolies

Dave Kohl is the founder of Joolies, a California based farm and CPG brand producing Medjool date products. Dave and his family founded the original date farm two decades ago and recently launched Joolies. He shares more about the company’s origin and how they strategically built the brand and product messaging.

We Taste-Tested Hundreds of Healthy Snacks—and These Are the Best Ones

Dates are known as nature’s candy; one bite into these fiber-rich gems and you’ll know why. Tender, sweet, and caramelly, they’re tastier than most desserts. ($22; amazon.com) 110 Calories, 1g Protein, 0g Fat, 3g Fiber