Pressed Juicery New Freeze Flavors, New Toppings, New Membership Program

Fro-yo girl here. When Pressed Juicery introduces a new Freeze flavor, they usually introduce one new flavor at a time. It’s been awhile since there was a new Freeze flavor; the last new flavor was Matcha Almond Freeze back in May 2017. I was excited to get an email from Pressed Juicery announcing two new flavors of Freeze, Creamy Coconut and Mango Turmeric. Both are nut free, plant-based (vegan), with no sugar added. I like how Freeze is made with just a few natural ingredients.

I went to Pressed Juicery at the Americana at Brand in Glendale, CA to try the new flavors. However, they were having problems with the soft serve machine, and weren’t able to serve either new flavor. And they weren’t sure when the problem would be resolved. I went to another location and they were having problems with the machine too. However, they did let me try Creamy Coconut though the texture was icier than it should be.

* Creamy Coconut (water, pineapple, coconut, vanilla extract, sea salt): It tasted like sweetened ice. I couldn’t detect pineapple or coconut. But every location that I went to had problems getting the texture right, so I didn’t try it with the texture they wanted to achieve.

* Mango Turmeric (apple, orange, mango, coconut, pineapple, turmeric): Mango flavors can be really sweet because mango is so sweet. I liked how this flavor wasn’t just mango. It was less sweet and I could taste the pineapple and quite a bit of turmeric. It was icier than their almond milk flavors but had a pleasant, clean flavor. They added a new topping for the mango, Tajin.

While I was there I noticed a sign for the new membership program. It’s free to join. You authorize Pressed Juicery to load a set dollar amount ($10 minimum) to your account every month. This allows you to enjoy the member discount, juices and Freeze for $5. The old loyalty program is separate and will continue but you won’t earn points on your membership purchases. You also can’t combine offers. The amounts do roll over and you can cancel at any time. It’s a good deal! Maybe froyo shops should consider offering something similar. It guarantees income, which will help shops deal with seasonal downturns. It might increase consumption too, since members are pre-paying for treats.

Sign up on the Pressed Juicery website or at one of their stores. https://www.pressedjuicery.com/

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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So Delicious Cashewmilk Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert Review

Fro-yo girl here. Grocery Outlet Bargain Market in San Gabriel, CA had assorted So Delicious non-dairy frozen dessert pints for $2.49 each. The listed retail price is $5.99 and Sprouts sells it for $6.49, so that's quite a good deal. The location that I went to only had one flavor of So Delicious Cashewmilk Frozen Dessert, Cappuccino. I went to a different location of Grocery Outlet Bargain Market and they also only had the Cappuccino flavor The Cashewmilk line has ten flavors, including Dark Chocolate Truffle, Salted Caramel Cluster, Snickerdoodle, Very Vanilla, etc. The ingredients are Non-GMO Project Verified, Certified Gluten-Free and Certified Vegan.

* Cappuccino Cashewmilk Frozen Dessert: The Cappuccino flavor is made with fair trade coffee beans. The texture was thick, smooth, dense, and very creamy, just like dairy based ice cream. The flavor was like a lighter, sweeter coffee (appropriate for the cappuccino name) with a hint of cinnamon and salt. It had an interesting nutty, buttery taste. Overall, the cashew milk frozen dessert did not taste like a lowfat, diet ice cream. It still tasted indulgent and nutty. I'm not sure how I feel about the buttery flavor though.

One half-cup serving has 150 calories, 7g total fat, 21g total carbohydrate, 17g sugar and 3g protein. It’s about half the calories and fat as a premium ice cream and lower in sugar too.

Ingredients: Cashew milk (water, cashews, non-GMO canola oil), organic dried cane syrup, gum acacia, natural flavor, sea salt, organic fair trade coffee, cinnamon.

So Delicious also makes frozen non-dairy desserts with coconut milk, almond milk, and soy milk.

4 out of 5 stars.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

* GROCERY OUTLET BARGAIN MARKET: 7260 Rosemead Blvd., San Gabriel, CA 91775

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Nekter Free Skoop Night

Fro-yo girl here. Nekter has just launched a new product called Skoop, available in two flavors, Chocolate Bliss and Viva Vanilla. It’s scoopable and can be topped with healthy toppings. Skoop is poured into a vertical batch freezer and scooped out.

“Skoop by Nekter is a handcrafted frozen treat, made fresh in small batches using creamy cashew milk and clean, plant-based ingredients. It's dairy-free, gluten-free and soy-free, yet full of delicious flavor.” It's all natural. A 5-ounce serving of Skoop has about 180 calories.

One Skoop is $4.25 and you can add 3 toppings for $1. The toppings include chocolate drizzle, vegan chocolate chips, cacao nibs, strawberries, blueberries, coconut flakes, hempseed granola and gluten-free granola.

To introduce Skoop, Nekter hosted Free Skoop Night on June 9, 2017.

I tried Viva Vanilla which is made with Tahitian vanilla, cashew milk, honey, coconut sugar, agave nectar and a pinch of salt. Skoop was creamy but it was also very soft. Perhaps this was because of the long line of people and the need to make a fresh batch of vanilla. Maybe it wasn’t given enough time to freeze. I didn’t enjoy the melted texture. The vanilla flavor was strong but I didn’t taste much else, other than sweeteners. While Pressed Juicery Freeze tends to be too icy, it is firm and that’s better than runny. Freeze also has more flavor, is refreshing and has better toppings. I also prefer Pressed’s juices to Nekter’s.

While all Nekter units will serve Skoop, only about half of them currently have Skoop.

3 out of 5 stars.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

Looking for more frozen yogurt news, discussion boards, and resources? Check out the International Frozen Yogurt Association website at http://internationalfrozenyogurt.com/. The IFYA is the independent voice of the frozen yogurt industry.

Special Summer Offer for Shop Operators on Dole Soft Serve Mix

Do you love Dole Whip? Chances are you answered yes and you know many people, including your customers who feel the same way. Dole Soft Serve has 97% brand recognition and is loved by countless customers. Dole Whip fans are known as Dole Whip Devotees.

Dole’s most popular flavor is Pineapple. The famous Dole Whip (aka, Dole Pineapple soft serve) has been a sensation at Disneyland’s Tiki Room for over 35 years and is now served at Disneyland and Disney World. Customers have been known to stand in line for over an hour for their Dole Whip fix. Dole Whip has been drawing customers into frozen yogurt shops that serve it because it reminds people of their trip to Disneyland.

The new Dole Lemon soft serve is bright, light and refreshing. It’s sure to be a huge hit this summer. 

Dole Soft Serve is the perfect fruity soft serve for those seeking a light, refreshing treat. Dole Soft Serve is cholesterol free, fat free, gluten free, lactose free, dairy free/vegan and made with natural colors.

With Dole Soft Serve, it’s easy for frozen yogurt stores to offer an alternative frozen treat for all customers, including those that may have dairy, gluten, allergen, and/or other dietary sensitivities. About 1 in 4 consumers are lactose intolerant and 29% of Americans say they are trying to avoid gluten for health reasons.

The product is shipped as a dry mix so you save on shipping costs. It’s extremely easy to prepare – just add water to the mix and whisk (Dole's instructional video). Expand your offerings with Dole. Use Dole Soft Serve in ice cream sandwiches, sundaes, floats or add syrup and soda to serve it as a fizzy beverage.

Get your Dole Soft Serve mixes before National Soft Serve Day, August 19. Dole Whip fans, tell your local froyo shop about this offer.

Available flavors: Orange, Strawberry, Raspberry, Mango, Pineapple, Lemon

Special Offer for IFYA Members: Free DOLE Starter Kits & Rebates

International Frozen Yogurt Association (IFYA) members can request a FREE Dole starter kit from Kent Precision Foods Group for a limited time only.

The starter kit contains:

• 2 samples of Dole Soft Serve – your choice of flavors
• Dole bucket with lid: to be used to make Dole soft serve, the bucket has instructions printed on the outside
• Wire whisk

The starter kit has an approximate retail value of $50.

To qualify for the complimentary starter kit, you must be an IFYA member and operate three or more frozen yogurt shops. 

This offer is good until September 15, 2015.

Kent Precision Foods Group is also offering a rebate on purchases of Dole Soft Serve. Get up to $500 back on your purchase. The rebate is good for purchases made in 2015. The rebate forms will come with the Dole starter kit.

Join the IFYA at internationalfrozenyogurt.com to take advantage of our membership benefits, like discounts on supplies for your frozen yogurt shop. Membership is free.

About Kent Precision Foods Group

Kent Precision Foods Group specializes in developing, blending and packaging dry mix food products to our customers’ exacting specifications.

In addition to our dry blending capabilities, KPFG offers a diverse line of branded products for the foodservice and consumer channels.

For additional information, visit precisionfoods.com

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Yoga-urt Grand Opening Pictures

Fro-yo girl here. Congrats to Yoga-urt, LA’s first all organic, vegan froyo shop. The soft serve is also Kosher and gluten free. This past weekend was the grand opening celebration, with $1 soft serve (4 ozs) and 50% off other sizes, plus a prize raffle. On Saturday they ran out of several flavors.

I think my favorite flavor is Vanilla Harmony because I like the nutty almond milk flavor and that clean finish.

Here are a few pictures from the grand opening.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

* YOGA-URT, 1407 ½ W Kenneth Rd., Glendale, CA 91201

Looking for more frozen yogurt news, discussion boards, and resources? Check out the International Frozen Yogurt Association website at http://internationalfrozenyogurt.com/. The IFYA is the independent voice of the frozen yogurt industry.

New Contest: Win Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Mix for Your Shop

Fro-yo girl here. The International Frozen Yogurt Association and Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Co. have partnered to bring you a new contest, The Cool Way to Eat Fruit: Win Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Mix for Your Shop.

Froyo fans, if you'd like your froyo shop to carry Chloe's Soft Serve Fruit Mix, tell them about this contest!

The Prizes

Two prizes will be awarded:

First prize: 3 cases of Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Mix

Second prize: 1 case of Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Mix

About Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Mix

Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Mix offers a unique, high quality, great tasting, healthy upgrade to existing non-dairy alternatives. Shops that carry Chloe’s can appeal to health conscious consumers and differentiate themselves from other frozen yogurt shops. Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Mix can also be served as a smoothie, super food bowl, parfait or as a waffle topping.

Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit is made with just three ingredients: real fruit, filtered water and a touch of organic sugar. The flavors are intense and natural and the texture is creamy. Soft serve fruit is good for you, all natural, delicious, vegan, gluten free, dairy free, kosher, pareve, and nonfat. Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Mix is available in 14 seasonal varieties, including apple, banana, blood orange, blueberry, cranberry, dark chocolate, mango, mixed berry, pear, pineapple, plum, pumpkin, raspberry, strawberry and tangerine.

Who’s Eligible

The Cool Way to Eat Fruit contest is open to all legal residents of the United States who are members of the International Frozen Yogurt Association and current owner/operators or employees of a frozen yogurt shop. Entrants must be 18 years or older. The shop must be in an area that is covered by Chloe’s SSF distribution network.* 

To become a member of the IFYA, visit internationalfrozenyogurt.com. Membership is free.

No purchase is necessary to enter or win.

How to Enter

To participate in the Contest, entrants must complete an online survey: http://tinyurl.com/cool-way-contest or via email to info@internationalfrozenyogurt.com

The Contest ends on March 20, 2015 at 11:59:59 P.M. PST. Winners will be selected at random from eligible entries. Limit one entry per person.

Contest Rules

The contest rules can be found at: http://internationalfrozenyogurt.com/cool-way-eat-fruit-contest-rules/

About Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Co.

The three “sweets” loving, health conscious creators of Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Co™ go way back. Michael and Jason grew up on the same street in a suburb just outside of Washington, DC, and have been creating businesses together since high school. Chloe, met Jason in College at Tufts University, and the three have been hanging ever since. The Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Co.™ brand has been a labor of love, time and imagination, as the trio set out to create a delicious, wholesome, innovative frozen treat. They are proud that, together, they have created the cool way to eat fruit.

Pressed Juicery Freeze Review

Fro-yo girl here. Do you love cold pressed juice? Are you a fan of Pressed Juicery? 

Pressed Juicery launched “Freeze” in June 2014 in Palo Alto, CA. Freeze is a vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free soft serve frozen treat made with 100% fruits, vegetables, and nuts. The flavors are similar to their juice flavors.

Freeze flavors include Greens, Roots, Citrus, Fruits, Chocolate Almond Freeze and Vanilla Almond Freeze. Freeze contains no added sugar but is sweetened naturally with dates. It has no additives or binders. The Chocolate Almond Freeze is made with four ingredients: almond, dates, sea salt and cacao.

I tried the Vanilla Almond Freeze and the consistency was icy and not very smooth, but the flavor was very natural and clean. It's surprisingly sweet thanks to the dates. A small (4 oz.) is $4.95 and you can add healthy toppings like fresh fruit, spices, granola, nuts, almond butter, honey, rose syrup, peanut butter, Hawaiian pink salt, cacao nut freezing drizzle, and goji berries.

Freeze is available at select Pressed Juicery locations. I found it at the Americana. I'd say that it's worth trying.

Less than a block away from Pressed Juicery, Pinkberry at the Americana offered their new Frozen Juice. Frozen Juice was introduced early this year. It’s a dairy-free frozen treat (their first) with no added sugar and three servings of fruit. The price is the same as their frozen yogurt. Dairy-free Pinkberry is currently available only in two locations in the LA area.

Interested in dairy-free, vegan soft serve? Check out my new Pinterest board,  Non Dairy Vegan Froyo Alternatives.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

Looking for more frozen yogurt news, discussion boards, and resources? Check out the International Frozen Yogurt Association website at http://internationalfrozenyogurt.com/. The IFYA is the independent voice of the frozen yogurt industry.

Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Review & West Coast Tour (Feb. 9 - 13)

Fro-yo girl here. What’s your attitude towards fresh fruit? 

1. You love it so much that you don’t mind all the peeling, cutting, seed removal, bruising, messiness and perishability
2. You enjoy the flavor but you think it’s a hassle to eat
3. You don’t mind it if the flavor is masked by something else
4. You avoid it all costs

If you answered 1 or 2, you would enjoy Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit. Soft serve fruit is made with just three ingredients: real fruit, filtered water and a touch of organic sugar. The flavors are intense and natural. Soft serve fruit is good for you, all natural, vegan, gluten free, dairy free, kosher, pareve, nonfat and creamy in texture. It’s like sorbet or soft serve without all the additives.

Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Company got its start in 2010 when three friends and health-conscious entrepreneurs, Michael Sloan, Chloe Epstein, and Jason Epstein, created “soft serve fruit.” They opened their first location in NYC in 2010 and entered the wholesale market in 2012. The two wholesale products are Chloe’s Soft Serve Mix (available in 14 varieties, including apple, banana, blood orange, blueberry, cavaillon melon, cranberry, dark chocolate, mango, pear, pineapple, plum, pumpkin, raspberry, strawberry, tangerine) and Soft Serve Fruit Pops.

Chloe's Soft Serve Fruit Mix is a Popular Non-Dairy Alternative to Frozen Yogurt

Chloe's Soft Serve Fruit Mix is a tasty non-dairy alternative to soft serve frozen yogurt. It's served out of soft serve machine and has a surprisingly creamy texture.

Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Mix is a hit at shops like Yo-Nutz (Sunrise, Florida), FlavorBerry (Houston, Texas), Yo-Fresh (multiple PA locations), Vanilla Sky (Forest Hills, NY), and D’Lites Emporium (St. Petersburg, FL).

Max Goldsmith, Director of Business Development at Chloe's Soft Serve Fruit Co. will be in the Los Angeles/San Diego area from Feb. 9-13. To arrange for a private tasting at your frozen yogurt shop, please email Max at max@chloesfruit.co

Sampling Chloe's Soft Serve Fruit Pops

I was recently lucky enough to sample Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Pops. I didn’t sample all of the flavors but I did try several that I really enjoyed. The flavor you like best will depend on the fruit you like best.

The pops are different because of their higher fruit content, simplicity of ingredients (fruit, filtered water, organic cane sugar) and the use of soft serve fruit mix which creates a creamier/airier texture. It’s best to let them thaw for 10-15 minutes before eating.

• Raspberry: Really intense, fresh flavor, didn’t notice any seeds, liked how tangy it was, it was lightly sweetened
• Blueberry: Very good but not as tangy as the raspberry, sweeter than the raspberry
• Tangerine: Sweeter than raspberry and blueberry with a bit of pulp
• Banana: I couldn’t eat this because I hate bananas but Mr. Froyo thought it was terrific, very natural and fresh tasting
• Dark chocolate: I couldn’t eat this because it has some banana, it should be called Dark Chocolate Banana

The pops are full size (2.5 fl. Oz) and only 60 calories each. It really does taste like fruit on the stick only much easier to eat. Chloe’s pops are carried at grocery stores, markets, restaurants, zoos, etc. Chloe’s soft serve mix is served at restaurants and frozen yogurt shops. To find Chloe’s, check out their list of retail locations: http://www.chloesfruit.com/find-us/wholesale

You can also catch Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Co. at Expo West in Anaheim, CA from March 6-8. Drop by booth #6250 for a sample.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

Looking for more frozen yogurt news, discussion boards, and resources? Check out the International Frozen Yogurt Association website at http://internationalfrozenyogurt.com/. The IFYA is the independent voice of the frozen yogurt industry.