SIMONS: Need a reason to eat gelato? Here's one

Janet Simons, Rocky Mountain News

Published October 17, 2007 at midnight

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If you buy a pint of Espo's Gelato at Safeway during October, 50 cents of the price goes to the Susan G. Komen Foundation to help fight breast cancer. The low- fat, richly flavored Italian frozen dessert, which usually sells for $4.99 a pint, also is on sale at two pints for $7 at Safeway during the Breast Cancer Awareness Month promotion.

Flavors include cappuccino chip and coconut. Espo's is made in Denver by company founder Jennifer Esposito. For more information, go to esposgelato.com.

• Boulder makers of Infinitea Kombucha - a flavored, fermented-tea beverage - are testing a new flavor, lulo-spirulina, at the Boulder Farmers' Market. Company founder Nicole Gervace hopes to have lulo-spirulina Infinitea Kombucha join her other flavors - original, blueberry-pomegranate, lemon-citrus and ginger - on store shelves by the time the market closes Nov. 3. It's sold at Vitamin Cottage, Wild Oats, Whole Foods and various independent food markets for $2.79 to $2.99 per 12-ounce bottle.

Infinitea is made by adding kombucha, a symbiotic bacteria- yeast colony, to sweetened tea and letting the mixture ferment for a month.

"Some people like it right away, but others need a while to get used to it," Gervace said. She likens the flavor to apple cider, although some find it more comparable to cider vinegar. "It's common for someone to taste it and say 'yuck,' then buy it anyway and come back a week later to say they've become addicted to it."

Customers keep coming back, she says, because Infinitea makes them feel better. To quote her carefully worded Web site, infinitea kombucha.com: "Many people, but definitely not anyone associated with the FDA, claim that drinking kombucha tea . . . generates an overall feeling of good health and well-being."

• The Denver-based American Humane Association is ready to certify that eggs from Eggland's Best come from contented hens. In coming months, American Humane president Marie Belew Wheatley says, the public will start to see American Humane Certified Eggland cartons indicating that cage-free and organic varieties from the Pennsylvania- based company meet the association's criteria.

In other words, they were laid by hens that "are free to enjoy a healthy life, benefiting from disease and injury prevention and rapid diagnoses and treatment, and have access to fresh water and a diet that maintains full health and vigor," a press release says. "They also must be free to express normal behaviors and live in an appropriate and comfortable environment that includes sufficient space, proper facilities, shelter, a resting area and company of their own kind."

Have a tip on a new food or trend in groceries? Reach Janet Simons at simonsj@RockyMountainNews.com, 303-954-2547.

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