Gourmet Raw (www.gourmetraw.com) is a new, convenient, healthy food range that is packed with natural energy due to launch in the UK in November 2009.
The handmade range includes two variants of Gourmet Raw Brownies (Celestial Cacao and Cocobanana) and three varieties of Flackers™* (Salsa, Jive and Sunshine). Flackers make a delicious, raw alternative to bread and are tasty served with guacamole, salsa or on their own as a quick and convenient raw snack. Flackers are delicious alternatives to crackers and fabulous served with freshly made guacamole or tomato salsa. They also make a raw alternative to bread to make sandwiches to eat on the go filled with houmous and salad. The Flackers retail at £3.59 each and the brownies retail at £2.95.
Three new gluten-free snack bars are also in production and will be launched shortly: Oracle (goji berries, hemp seeds and other delicious seeds), Supadoopa Slice (nut-free and sweetened with lucuma), and Mutiny (coconut and chocolate).
Made to order, none of the products are heated above 40.5°C, making them suitable for people living a raw food lifestyle. They are the ideal size to carry in your handbag or coat pocket and perfect for anyone looking for an organic and healthy snack – regardless of whether you’re 100% raw or just in need of some healthy and delicious food to eat on the go.
Gourmet Raw is passionate about making raw, natural and living foods – positively bursting with life force energy – for hardcore raw foodies through to the mainstream market. As no heating is used, the natural flavours stay completely intact, providing a refreshing taste sensation.
Gourmet Raw products are free from refined sugars, artificial colours, preservatives and flavours. They are all suitable for vegetarians and vegans, and even the packaging would get the seal of approval from Mother Nature: the labels use vegetable-based inks and are 100% recycled.
Here are some example product ingredients:
Celestial Cacao Brownies: hand-cracked cashews, oats, pecans, cacao powder, vanilla powder, agave nectar, dates, raw almond butter, cinnamon, Himalayan salt.
Salsa Flackers: sprouted ground flaxseeds, whole flaxseeds, bell peppers, tomatoes, garlic, dried chilli, sun-dried tomatoes, parsley, Himalayan salt.
Gourmet Raw is an original and innovative range of raw food products, produced in the UK by passionate raw foodies Andrew Davis and Angela Davis (founders of The Raw Food School). The range was created in response to growing interest in the raw food lifestyle and demand for products that haven’t been heated above 40.5°C (ensuring that the enzymes and minerals are not destroyed). People choosing to follow a raw food lifestyle have to become incredibly good at organising and planning, as the range of suitable products in the retail and foodservice markets has, until now, been incredibly limited.
Andrew Davis has been eating raw for more than five years and craved the delicious, handmade raw food he enjoyed at home while out and about on business meetings and on days out with the family.
Andrew says: “The only downside to the raw lifestyle was the difficulty of finding really interesting raw food options on the move. We wanted to be able to walk into a shop or a cafe and buy great-tasting raw foods that are packed with natural life force rather than heated, convenient, processed foods. We also wanted to know that the ingredients were of the best quality, ethically sourced and naturally organic. We thought that if we wanted all of this, then other people probably did too. The seed was planted, we threw in our day jobs and Gourmet Raw was born”.
Consumer taste tests have been conducted in two independent stores in Glastonbury (home to Gourmet Raw) and at The Raw Food School. The range has been welcomed with open arms, not only by the raw food community, but also by the growing number of people who appreciate healthy, innovative and high-quality organic produce. The range, along with the ingredients used to make the Gourmet Raw products (such as hemp seeds, lucuma and goji berries) are available for sale via the website (www.gourmetraw.com). The company is also in discussion with a number of specialist distributors in London and the Glastonbury region for sale in retail outlets.
Andrew comments: “Here at Gourmet Raw, we have a mission in life: to make it easy for everyone to indulge in the tastiest, healthiest raw and living foods on the planet. The quality of conventional food is often compromised in the name of profit. Bogus health claims scream at us from every supermarket shelf. The list of things to worry about gets longer and longer – pesticides, e-numbers, preservatives, toxins, pollutants, even electro-magnetic frequency. With the non-stop pace of modern life, who has time to make sense of it all? We want to remove the worry and stress and replace it with delicious raw food.”
–Finally, a convenient and organic product range that is packed with a natural life force to give you natural energy–
