When Dee Valdez (aka Gluten-Free Dee) represents a gluten-free product, you can bet it’s going to be a top of the line item. Dee is the person who implores us all to return bad tasting gluten-free products for a refund so that retailers will know they need to rethink their buying policies. Just because a company is big doesn’t mean their products are the best on the market. That fact became very apparent to me shortly after I began trying gluten-free replacement type foods like pizza, crackers and bagels.
Several weeks ago, a box arrived from Savory Choice. Inside the package were four small boxes of concentrated broths including chicken, beef, low sodium vegetable and low sodium chicken. There were four small pouches – or sticks – inside each small box, making the product quite environmentally friendly. There is no MSG in the concentrated broths and they are made with all natural ingredients. Each pouch makes one cup of broth when mixed with hot water.
Since I was sick with a cold the day the broths arrived, I had a cup of the Savory Choice chicken broth for lunch and I could not believe how delicious it was. Most chicken broths taste the same to me. At least they have until now. Sure, they all have a chicken flavor, but the Savory Choice concentrated broth has a very strong chicken flavor unlike other similar products. It sounds odd, but the broth was almost creamy because it was so velvety smooth.
Interestingly, the regular chicken broth contains 15 calories per cup but the low sodium version has 25. Those two flavors and the beef flavor contain 1g of fat per serving. The vegetable broth has 0g of fat and 20 calories per serving. There are a lot of recipes on the Savory Choice website, but remember to use only gluten-free ingredients if you experiment with the recipes.
It’s still relatively surprising to me that these concentrated broths taste as exceptional as they do. Whatever makes them so great is not really evident from the ingredients. Maybe it’s the simplicity of the ingredients and what is not in them that makes the products so tasty. Website excerpt:
Savory Choice® is brought to you by Savory Creations International. Founded in 2003 by a team of experts with over 30 years experience in the food industry, Savory Creations International mission is to develop, manufacture, and distribute competitively priced food products that use only the highest-quality natural flavors and ingredients.
We’re committed to delivering only “Clean Label” products that contain no chemical additives such Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), hydrolyzed vegetable proteins (HVPs), or Disodium Inosonate + Disodium Guanalate (I + G).
Savory Choice is a line of exceptional liquid broth concentrates made from natural ingredients. Developed using proprietary natural flavor technologies the result is superior taste, aroma, and overall quality.
Savory Choice products can be purchased online and orders of $25 or more qualify for free shipping. There are 4-stick and 12-stick boxes available for some of the broths. I delightedly discovered that some of the Savory Choice broths are sold at Natural Foods Warehouse in Duluth but according to this where to buy page, the concentrated broths are available at Kroger and Publix stores in GA as well.
*Special thanks to Savory Choice for my review samples and to gluten-free Dee for representing such exceptional companies!
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