Cooking Light Names the Best-Tasting Products in First-Ever Taste Test Awards
NEW YORK, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ — The October issue of Cooking Light (www.CookingLight.com) features the brand’s first-ever Taste Test Awards – “The Tasties.” The editors tested 200 food products and came up with the best-tasting winners in 32 categories. Twenty-six of the categories feature grocery store products while six showcase artisanal standouts. The issue hits newsstands September 17th.
To qualify in the grocery categories, foods had to be available in major markets nationwide. Cooking Light vetted products against nutrition standards, eliminating those that contained artificial trans fats, too much salt, or artificial sugars. The panel of editors tasted finalists “blind:” the tasters did not know which brands they were sampling. Not all products are low fat. Some higher fat items are on the list because of their superior quality and taste. Used moderately, these products have a place in a healthy lifestyle. In each category, one Grand Prize Winner (GPW) is selected as well as one or more Taste Test Award Winners (TTA).”Our staff spent most of the last year tasting American grocery and artisanal foods for our awards,” says Editor Scott Mowbray. “We ate our way through bread, cereal, and hummus to find products that we felt deserved recognition. We added the artisanal categories because there is so much exciting action in the world of handmade food right now.”
| The 2010 Taste Test Award Artisanal Winners: | |
| Turner Ham House Country Ham, Virginia | |
| Tall Grass Buffalo Jerky, South Dakota | |
| Pork on a Fork Cottage Shoulder Cut Bacon, Arizona | |
| Boccalone Nduja, California | |
| Salumeria Biellese Wild Boar Sopressata, New York |
