The Arnott’s Group, the manufacturer and producer of Prego and Kimball in Malaysia, has recently unveiled its latest Prego Spicy Seafood Arrabbiata pasta sauce. This product is actually a spin off from its Prego Spicy Seafood Arrabbiata Spiral, which is an instant pasta.
Prego Spicy Seafood Arrabbiata pasta sauce (295g) is priced at RM 6.89 on Lazada Groceries. Click here to purchase to enjoy a new pasta eating experience.
Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks is offering new plant-based snack Phuture Chicky Popcorn at its outlets in Malaysia. Available from 1 November 2022 to 31 December 2022, consumers can choose to enjoy Phuture Chicky Popcorn in a la carte or value set.
Phuture Value Set comes with:
-1x Phuture Chicky Popcorn
-1x Handmade Oyster Mee Sua
-1x Freshmade Drink
Miaow Miaow Food Products Sdn Bhd has launched its latest product Miaow Miaow Choco Buddy. The new product is a bite-sized cookie said to offer irrestible fun anytime. Miao Miaow is known for its Prawn Crackers, Green Pea Snacks, Cuttlefish Flavoured Crackers, Potato Chips, Cheese Flavoured Rings, Hot & Spicy Flavoured Snacks and Chicken Flavoured Crackers.
Street Churros has launched “Espresso Yourself” — an initiative to help shed more light on our local artists by offering them a chance to get their designs on our coffee cup sleeves for one year. Additionally, due to the working nature of artists, Street Churros is also offering cash prizes alongside free coffee for one year.
This initiative is held in collaboration with Nassuha (@nassuha on Instagram and Twitter), who is a Malaysian artist that has found success in his field. He now hopes to give back to the community who had helped him grow.
This initiative runs from the 10th of November all the way to the 10th of December.
Artists all around Malaysia can join this competition either by physically drawing on the cupsleeve for our hot drinks, or by downloading Street Churros’ template online and drawing digitally. Spending money on Street Churros’ products is not compulsory and will not affect the participants’ winning chances. Street Churros really prioritise accessibility for all for this initiative, and therefore had constructed it in such a manner to ensure a fair competing chance for everyone.
In another development, Street Churros has launched its latest flavour – Yolker Salted Egg.
WonderBrew Kombucha has collaborated with K3 Coffee Lab Malaysia in launching he latest komhucha series drinks at their outlets. These 3 recipes are co-developed by both local brands to tickle consumers’ taste buds.
Bringing kombucha game to the next level are Passionfruit Kombucha, Kombuffee (kombucha with coffee) and Pink Grapefruit Kombucha.
In another development, WonderBrew Kombucha has unveiled its Christmas flavour, Apple Cinnamon. WonderBrew describes the product as having “the touch of cinnamon in our kombucha brings warmth with a hint of apple that gives off that sweet burst of joy.”
WonderBrew has collaborated with @theolivetreecompany with Buy 10 and get 1 Free Olive Tree Gift Set Worth RM89. It consists of 1 Natural Hair Repair Shampoo, Natural Repair Hand Cream & Seaberry Body Wash. The Olive Tree Natural Skincare offers carefully crafted natural body and hair care products from the goodness of Mother Nature. All of the products are vegan, biodegradable whilst using natural ingredients sourced from plants.
Food Passion Co, the operator of Charna restaurants, has teamed up with ViMUT Hospital. The hospital offers assistance in ensuring each dish offers an adequate amount of nutrients to reduce consumers’ risk of developing chronic non-communicable diseases. They also emphasise on the sourcing of chemical-free raw materials as well as on the cooking process.
As part of the collaboration, Charna offers eight healthy dishes for diners including poke bowl and salad.
We have seen how hospital has commercialised healthy food and drink leveraging on their trusted brand name. There is a potential for more hospital-owned brands to fill the gap for nutritious products.
Tia Ngee Hiang (Chao Sua), the owner of Chao Sua rice cracker, has collaborated with Five Star Chicken to launch a new product featuring Five Star Chicken Grilled Chicken Recipe. The new snack product is aimed at the new generation and working age group consumers.
The new bite-sized rice cracker with only 140kcal is priced at THB 20 for a 30g pack and is available at Five Star Chicken outlets and Chao Sua stores throughout Thailand.
Minor Food Group Plc, the operator of The Pizza Company brand, has launched New York Style Pizza with soft and thin crust. It comes in 3 new toppings Cheese & Sausages, Grilled Hawaiian and Seafood Sour Cream. The pizza has two sizes 18 inches and 12 inches.
The Pizza Company aims to open 30-50 new branches in 2023 with an investment of THB 150 million, according to a report by Bangkok Post. New branches would be opened under the concept of a “small box” outlet, covering 60-80 square metres. The first “small box” store will open in January 2023 in community malls or commercial buildings with a focus on second-tier districts.
The pizza chain aims to open 100 small-box stores over the coming five years within retail complexes, petrol stations and community and office buildings.
Thai Beverage (ThaiBev) has launched Thailand’s first unpasteurised beer as a premium beer to bring excitement to the market during the upcoming peak sales season for beer. Chang Unpasteurised offers a new fresh experience and is only available in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.
Chang Unpasteurised comes with 3 outstanding features:
Unpasteurised is an approach to premiumisation and a way to demonstrate freshness. ThaiBev is focusing on the HoReCa channel at the moment due to the need to ensure freshness.
Embodying a wholesome concept of health, XO-ice consists of gelatos that are healthy, low-calorie, and rich in protein
Kuala Lumpur, 30th November 2022 — XO-ice, an Asian-born-Italian-made low-calorie gelato brand, introduces a new approach to desserts serving go-to gelatos for health conscious consumers in Malaysia. Offering great-tasting gelatos with a premium texture, XO-ice prioritises providing consumers the freedom to indulge happily and healthily.
Reconceptualizing the traditional dessert to fit our modern lifestyle, XO-ice offers gelatos that are 70% lower in calories, contain 8 to 9 times less sugar, and 1.4 to 1.9 times more protein than your average ones. The brand also leveraged on Italian gelato-making expertise to achieve its superior and instant ‘spoonability’ texture with strong and mouth-watering flavours so that consumers can devour it straight out of the freezer.
The inspiration behind XO-ice’s arrival in Malaysia stems from the brand’s aim in popularising desserts that contribute to its consumers’ nutritional, physical, mental, and emotional health. With Asia being the source of inspiration for many of the brand’s products, XO-ice wants to position the brand with a mission to offer healthy alternative sweet-treats to health conscious Asian consumers, especially Malaysians, by introducing Asian flavours suited to their palates.
“When we started XO-ice, the main idea was freedom in indulgence. There is something genuinely freeing to be able to eat what you want, savour it and move on with your life. XO-ice is a relatively new category of frozen dessert, and we see our key differentiator as delivering both the smooth texture and structure of gelato, as well as maintaining that high functional performance of low-calorie, low-sugar, low-fat and high protein content. We are extremely honoured to be able to share the indulgence with the Malaysian public and hope our consumers love the diverse flavours that come with it. Afterall, our vision in creating a healthy gelato is for people to enjoy but also, live a healthy yet wholesome lifestyle,” said Jennifer Lee, Co-Founder of XO-ice.
“We are also excited that XO-ice has recently closed a round of funding to support the next stage of development and bring more goodness to our consumers!” added Lee.
As a brand that cares for inclusivity, XO-ice wants to ensure as many of its consumers are able to enjoy its products, hence why it has worked towards being vegetarian, GMO-free, and Halal certified. With that, some of their popular flavours include:
King Don’t Lie Musang King Durian
A Musang King Durian-flavoured gelato with 25% of the Musang King Durian paste hailing from Malaysia that is 360 calories and contains 28g of protein.
The Coco Carat
A coconut-flavoured gelato with hints of caramel sauce that contains coconut from the Philippines that is 300 calories and contains 27g of protein.
Mucho Matcha
A matcha-flavoured gelato with matcha powder from Japan that is 303 calories and contains 28g of protein.
Seriously Chocolate
A chocolate-flavoured gelato with cocoa powder from Ecuador that is 255 calories and contains 23g of protein.
Takes-one-to Mango
A mango-flavoured gelato with Alphonso Mango pulp from India that is 305 calories and contains 28g of protein
Not-so-plain Vanilla
A vanilla-flavoured gelato with vanilla essence from Madagascar that is 333 calories and contains 28g of protein.
Goood Morning Vietnaaam!
A Vietnamese drip coffee-flavoured gelato with hints of chocolate chips that contains coffee from Vietnam and is 350 calories, containing 25g of protein.
For those dessert-lovers craving to get a taste of XO-ice’s gelatos, they are available in your local grocery stores such as AEON, Mercato, JUSCO, Ampang Grocers, Ben’s Independent Grocer, Bilabila Mart, Cold Storage, Isetan, Jaya Grocer, Village Grocer, and many others.
Apart from their current distinctive gelatos, consumers can expect constant development of newer ones in the future. A few upcoming flavours include Gingerly Chocolate, as well as dairy-free La Vie en Pink and Mango Goes Coco, and many more in-the-making.
For more information and updates, visit XO-ice on Instagram, Facebook, or website.
About XO-ice
It’s really simple. XO-ice wants each spoonful to feel like the huggiest ice cream you could have. Their gelatos are designed by a wonder brain, and made by masters of the craft in Veneto, Italy. They unearthed ingredients from Asia and beyond, for that richness in flavour and texture.
Age-old technique, modern adaptation. East & West. Not just in the head. XO-ice is here for that burst of happiness, spoonful after spoonful.
