MY REVIEW
I was so excited to see that Eden foods sent me some Japan snacks,because I'am so fascinated with Japan. I am always up for trying new snacks from Japan. The snacks Eden food sent me were Arara Rice Puffs, Nori Maki Crackers, Brown rice crackers, Brown rice chips, Wasabi Chips, Sea vegetable, Vegeteable chips. When i saw the flavors i will admit i was like eww some of these are weird. The Arara Rice Puffs taste like rice with a hint of seaweed they were pretty good but very different. The Nori Maki crackers was honestly very gross!!! They taste like pure fish out of the sea. Made gag i spit them right out! If you like seaweed fishey tasteing stuff then you would love them, me on the other hand i don't like fishey things. Brown Rice crackers These were very good They taste like an sesame seed cracker very yummy! Brown rice chips these were pretty good had a very strong rice flavor. Wasabi chips I hate wasabi so i did not like these at all. Made me gag! Kind of taste like a little stale as well. They have spice to them so if you dont like spicy things i wouldnt try them. If you love wasabi then you will really fall in love with these chips. The Sea vegeteable chips these were very salty I didnt really care for them. Way to salty for my taste! Vegeteable chips these taste better then the sea vegeteable chips less salty so i enjoyed these better! They also had great flavor to them. Overall there was some i really liked and others i totally disliked thats the risk of trying new things. If you want to try new snacks from a different country then i would definitely give these eden snacks a try! I really enjoyed taste testing these unique snacks!!
PRODUCT INFO
Arara rice puffs- Baked, light, crunchy snack puffs of sweet brown rice mochi, black sesame seed, and green nori seaweed flakes in a traditional 800-year-old manner. The finest ingredients with a sweet and salty glaze. Fat free and wheat free. A healthy snack with excellent food value. Wheat free.
Brown rice chips- Airy crisp chips with just four ingredients: brown rice, rice bran oil, nori seaweed, and sea salt. Kneaded dough is dried, baked into chips, rice bran oil flash fried, and centrifuge spun to remove oil. No hydrogenated oil or artificial ingredients. A transcendent snack that is good food. For garnish crumble them on soups, stews, and salads. The lowest in sodium of all our chips. Gluten free.
Brown rice crackers- Light crispy crunchy, and deeply satisfying snack food. Artfully crafted in an eighteen step process that takes over 48 hours. Baked, Eden tamari misted, and baked again. Awarded the prestigious Gold Medal at the All Japan Confectionery Exposition. No artificial ingredients or oil. Gluten free.
Nori Maki rice crackers- Satisfying crunchy crackers. Pounded sweet brown rice mochi is baked, glazed with traditionally brewed Eden tamari soy sauce blended with shiitake mushroom and kombu seaweed, rebaked and hand-wrapped with a piece of toasted nori sea vegetable. A celebratory snack food that is nourishingly potent. Fat free and gluten free
Sea vegetable- Airy crispy seaweed enriched snack with four sea vegetables: wakame, kombu, hiziki and nori. Kneaded dough is dried, baked into chips, rice bran oil flash fried, and centrifuge spun to remove oil. A delicious anytime snack with good food value. For garnish crumble them on soups, stews, and salads. No hydrogenated oil or artificial ingredients.
vegetable chips-Six vegetables in light, crispy chips. Kneaded dough is dried, baked into chips, rice bran oil flash fried, centrifuge spun to remove oil, and lightly organic tamari glazed. A colorful, delicious anytime snack with good food value.For garnish crumble them on soups, stews, and salads. No artificial ingredients or hydrogenated oil.
Wasabi chips-The Hall of Fame original hot chip of the natural food industry. Airy crispy wholesome snack food with the hot, stimulating flavor of real wasabi root. Made of select ingredients. Kneaded dough is dried, baked into chips, rice bran oil flash fried, and centrifuge spun to remove oil. A delicious anytime snack with great food value and benefit. For garnish crumble them on soups, stews, and salads. No hydrogenated oil - trans fat free or additives.
COMPANY INFO
45 Years Ago…
Eden Foods began in Ann Arbor in the late 1960s with friends sourcing natural food. Youth motivated by a study of a worldwide phenomenon centered upon macrobiotics: eating a diet of whole grain and seasonal local plant foods that are not nutrient depleted and without toxic chemical adulteration.
Natural foods were simply not available at the time, so they started the Eden food co-op to bring them in. Their initial $200 orders to Erewhon in Boston and Chico-san in California were well received and caused a local stir. This lead to co-op members traveling rural roads, knocking on doors looking for farmers to grow food using organic methods.
The Eden co-op grew into a natural food store offering whole grains, beans, soyfoods, sea vegetables, miso, cereals, vegetable oils, seed and nut butters, and the like. It expanded adding a cafeteria, bakery, and books, and became known as the Eden Deli. It was one of very few places in the U.S.A. where you could get natural, organic, macrobiotic food.
Folks came from near and far. Health food stores called asking to get the foods we were carrying. An EDEN brand began to take shape.
In 1972 Eden opened its first warehouse and established relations with artisan Japanese traditional food makers. Imports of sea vegetables, teas, miso, shoyu, umeboshi plums, kuzu root starch, rice vinegar, rice bran pickles, mirin, etc. followed, and this solidified Eden as an important natural food source for the United States and Canada.
Constantly Reinvesting
Eden is the oldest natural and organic food company in North America and the largest independent manufacturer of dry grocery organic foods. We are deeply rooted in Michigan about twenty miles southwest of Ann Arbor. It is here we manage grower relations, manufacturing, trucking, quality control, customer and retailer services, marketing, import/export, accounting, databases and websites.
Over 95% of EDEN foods are sold in natural food stores, co-ops, and supermarkets via traditional natural and grocery distribution channels. Web site, employee, and wholesale sales make up the remainder.
All EDEN food moves through one of our warehouses in either southeast Michigan or central California.
In 2008 Eden completed a 70,000 ft2 Michigan warehouse addition. Design, construction, and operation reflect our commitment to sustainable growth and follow LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) principles. Our original builder's son utilized 80% recycled steel forged in the area. It uses energy efficient lights and insulation, preserves native flora, and is good-neighbor landscaped for our very close residential neighbors. This warehouse meets a gold LEED certification level, the second highest possible rating.
Eden tracks the environmental impact of its food upstream with suppliers, through company operations, and downstream monitoring all its social impacts. Energy consumption and waste are tracked using custom in-house tools.
In 2009 Eden Foods was selected as the best food company in the world, and the third best company overall by The Better World Shopping Guide. They acknowledged Eden's outstanding record in social and environmental responsibility. The company earned A+ and A ratings in ten food categories. This is further explained at edenfoods.com/betterworld
Introduced in 2011 is an EDEN Recipes iPhone® App with 1,000+ Eden created and repeatedly tested recipes. Browse it by course, cuisine, diet considerations, ingredients, or keyword. It includes nutritional information for each recipe. Create a favorites list, or email them to friends. It's free at edenfoods.com/app
Locally Grown Food
Eden buys all food from, and pays farms directly getting more cash to them. Most is grown a few miles to a few hundred miles from home base. In the Midwest we source wild rice, beans, spelt, soybeans, cabbage, apples, tart cherries, strawberries, pastry wheat, and tomatoes. Other North American family farm organic food includes grains from the Midwest and Western high plains; almonds, pistachios, and brown rice are from California; flax and mustard seed are from Saskatchewan; dulse is from New Brunswick. …too many to list here.
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