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While "skinny" menu items can certainly include

Fancy Vegetables

soups, salads, and wraps, they do not have to be

Fancy vegetables-including avocados, cruciferous,

limited to those categories. Kruse points out that

and root veggies-are soaring in popularity, largely

the skinny phenomenon-bonus if you actually leave

due to their versatility and increasing availability.

"skinny" in the name-easily crosses product catego-

Avocados have a seemingly infinite number of appli-

ries, as exemplified by the following options currently

cations. These foodservice operations are both maxi-

on menus across the country:

mizing creativity and capitalizing on this trend:

* Baja Fresh's Skinny Wahoo Bowl

* Burger King's Avocado Swiss Whopper

* Benihana's Skinny Dining Promotion

* Whataburger's Avocado Bacon Burger

* Kona Grill's Skinny Sashimi and Skinny Ceviche

* Chick-fil-A's Grilled Chicken Cool Wrap with

* Ledo Pizza's Skinny Avocado Tuna Salad

Avocado-Lime Dressing

* Melting Pot's Skinny Dipping Fondue Menu

* California Pizza Kitchen's Avocado Club Egg Rolls

* Pie Five Pizza's Skinny Pie

* Cheesecake Factory's Portabella Mushroom,

* Ruby Tuesday's Skinny Lavender Lemon

Avocado, and Zucchini Fries

Drop Cocktail

* Crop Bistro and Bar's Avocado Deviled Eggs

* Taco Bueno's Chicken Skinny Bowl
* Wing Zone's Skinny Dippers
* Sbarro's Skinny Slide
* Chili's Skinny Margarita
* Cheesecake Factory's SkinnyLicious Soft
Chicken Tacos
Power Foods
Power foods are those that support alertness, energy,
and calmness. The following is a sampling of power

Cruciferous Vegetables include broccoli, cauliflower,

food options, organized by benefit:

Brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, and bok choy. They
are all packed with healthy phytochemicals, vitamins,

* Boost alertness with foods like omega-3-rich fish,

minerals, and fiber, and it's recommended that people

fortified breakfast cereals, liver, yogurt, cheese,

consume several servings of them each week. Some

eggs, and ham.

real, current cruciferous vegetable applications include:

* Increase energy with foods like red meats, fish,
poultry, soybeans, lentils, spinach, and oranges.
* Calm down with foods like brown rice, whole-grain
breads and pastas, whole oats, fruits, veggies,
and legumes.
Other power foods exist too, and
many foodservice operations have
found ways to incorporate them into

* California Pizza Kitchen's Brussels + Bacon Pizza
* Mellow Mushroom's Sriracha Broccoli Slaw
* Brennan's of Houston's Chicken-Friend
Cauliflower Steak

TRENDS AT A GLANCE

bonus if you leave the word "power"

"Stealth Health": high demand for grains, produce, proteins,
and other real foods that still taste great

in the product name. Here are few

Superpowers: superfoods and power foods take centerstage

examples:

Real: consumers no longer want fake, processed substitutes

their menus. Like skinny items, it is a

* Panera Bread's entire Power Menu
* Uno Pizzeria & Grill's Chopped
Power Salad
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Innovation: particularly around sides, grains, and produce
Service: involve consumers in choices and food preparation


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Editor's Note - Health Matters
Table of Contents
News Bites - IDDBA Names New President
Corbion Caravan helps customers adjust recipes
Foodservice consumers still smitten by bacon
My Favorite Things
Management - Empower Your Employees
Labor Front - Hired Guns
Food Safety - Produce Safety Measures
Legislation - Sodium Guidelines
Ingredients - Mangos Add Color
What's Hot
At the crossroads of gluten-free and uncertainty
Millennial-style marketing
Shortbread advantage
Italian Options
Cupcake Franchising in a Box
Cafe - The Protein Punch
Products
Product Showcase
Classifieds
Ad Index
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bake - August 2014 - Table of Contents
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bake - August 2014 - My Favorite Things
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bake - August 2014 - Management - Empower Your Employees
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