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Dieters and athletes love the taste; parents love that it is made in a peanut free facility FRESNO, Calif., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to viral marketing, growing demand and increasing sales, Barney Butter Almond Butter www.barneybutter.com has expanded its distribution, including 128 locations of Raley's Family of Fine Stores. Barney Butter is an all natural, no-stir, no-refrigeration almond butter. Demand prompted a move to a much larger facility that is peanut free (almond...

FRESNO, Calif., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to viral marketing, growing demand and increasing sales, Barney Butter Almond Butter http://www.barneybutter.com has expanded its distribution nationwide, including all 86 locations of The Fresh Market Stores. Barney Butter is an all natural, no-stir, no-refrigeration almond butter. Demand prompted a move to a much larger facility that is peanut free (almond only). "We had repeated customer requests for almond butter made in a...

CINCINNATI, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) said today it is recalling a nut topping sold in its family of retail stores because the product was associated with peanut butter supplied by Peanut Corporation of America and may be contaminated with Salmonella. Stores under the following names in the 31 states where Kroger operates are included in this recall: Kroger, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Food 4 Less, Fry's, King Soopers, Smith's, Dillons, QFC, City Market,...

SOLON, Ohio, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, January 10, we issued a recall of our peanut butter distributed to food service companies under the King Nut label. We issued the recall after learning that salmonella had been discovered in an open container of peanut butter with our label. We also made it clear that we do not manufacture King Nut peanut butter nor do we supply any ingredients for the peanut butter. We are simply the distributors. Since that time, we have been...

Earth Balance(R), a line of all-natural healthy buttery spreads, shortenings, nut butters, and cream cheeses, announced today six of its spreads are now available across Canada in bilingual packages -- including the Original Buttery Spread, Organic Whipped Spread, Mediterranean Spread, Vegan Buttery Sticks and Natural Shortening Sticks. "We are delighted to extend our line of natural spreads across Canada," said Rickard Werner, vice president and general manager of Earth Balance(R). "Our...

Earth Balance has announced that Whole Foods Market, a supermarket chain, is now offering Earth Balance's new vegan nut butter products in all its stores across the US. According to the company, United Natural Foods will distribute the new Earth Balance Almond Butter, Crunchy Peanut Butter and Creamy Peanut Butter products to over 250 Whole Foods Market stores across the country. Errol Schweizer, Whole Foods Market's associate global grocery co-ordinator, said: "Whole Foods Market is...

Earth Balance(R), a line of all-natural healthy buttery spreads, shortenings, nut butters, and cream cheeses, announced today that Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI), the world's leading natural and organic foods supermarket, is now offering Earth Balance(R)'s new vegan nut butter products in all of its stores nationwide. United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) will distribute all three new Earth Balance(R) products -- Almond Butter, Crunchy Peanut Butter and Creamy Peanut Butter -- to over...

Earth Balance(R), a line of all-natural healthy buttery spreads, shortenings, nut butters, and cream cheeses, announced today that Loblaws, Canada's premier grocery store, is now offering two bilingually packaged Earth Balance(R) products in 230 of its stores across Canada. The new Earth Balance(R) products include the Original Buttery Spread and the Mediterranean Spread. "We are excited to extend our line of natural spreads across Canada at Loblaws," said Rickard Werner, vice president and...

By Kwaku Sakyi-Addo ACCRA (Reuters) - In northern Ghana, tradition forbade men to stoop and pick up the fruit that fell from the towering shea nut tree. It was beneath them to do so. But that's not the case anymore. Shea butter is the new 'It' cosmetic in the West, where it is applied to smooth wrinkles and cure blemishes, while nut oil is used more and more in Europe as a cheap substitute for cocoa butter in chocolate. For generations women gathered the fruit, pounded the nuts, and sold the...

By Kwaku Sakyi-Addo ACCRA (Reuters) - In northern Ghana, tradition forbade men to stoop and pick up the fruit that fell from the towering shea nut tree. It was beneath them to do so. But that's not the case anymore. Shea butter is the new 'It' cosmetic in the West, where it is applied to smooth wrinkles and cure blemishes, while nut oil is used more and more in Europe as a cheap substitute for cocoa butter in chocolate. For generations women gathered the fruit, pounded the nuts, and sold the...