Featured Student: New Product Alert!

Run, my fellow nutrition nerds, and get thee to a health food market near you and pick up a brand new product by the fabulous Regal Vegan, Ella Nemcova.  You’ve heard of foie gras, I’m sure? That disgusting stuff made of chicken liver that, to me, nobody should be eating (and all that cholesterol and fat…ugh!)


Well, a new option is here, and it ROCKS! Enter Faux Gras (cute play on the name, huh?) According to Nemcova on her website, www.theregalvegan.com,


“Packed with all the flavor and smooth, spreadable texture of its traditional namesake, the goose and duck win out this year to“good-for-you” ingredients like lentils, walnuts and caramelized onions. Faux Gras is as perfect for breakfast on a slice of warm toast as it is for the appetizer table or in a lunchtime sandwich with cucumbers and avocados. It works with crackers or crudités and on its own is completely gluten-free.”


Um, hello? Doesn’t that sound like heaven? Lucky me got to sample this product, and I’m telling you, it IS heaven. It has just the right mixture of spices and a hit of sweetness, and the creamy texture is to die for. This spread is super healthy, so when you overindulge (and eat half the container in one sitting like I did…and trust me, you’ll do the same) there is no need to worry. 
Faux gras is such a new product that it is only available in select stores, such as:


Brooklyn:
Park Slope: Blue Apron Foods, Back to the Land, Park Slope Food Coop
Williamsburg: Sunac
Fort Greene: Green Grape
Brooklyn Heights: Perelandra
Ditmas Park: Natural Frontier


Manhattan
Lower East Side: Earth Matters
East Village: Commodities
West Village: Lifethyme
Gramercy: Natural Frontier
Upper East: Natural Frontier, East Side Health
Upper West: Health Nuts, Columbus Natural Foods
Midtown East: Health Nuts
Midtown West: Westerly


Run, definitely don’t walk, to pick up some faux gras. And check out The Regal Vegan website at www.theregalvegan.com for more information about the Queen of Vegan!