Kick off the summer in delicious style with NadaMoo!

Join us at Whole Foods in Cherry Creek on Friday, May 28th & enjoy free scoops of NadaMoo!

Oogave will be there with delicious natural sodas made with agave nectar, so you can also enjoy a refreshing NadaMoo-Oogave float while you shop & get ready for the weekend. We’ll be there from 11am-3pm under the thatched umbrella.

Whole Foods Cherry Creek

2375 East 1st Avenue

Denver, CO

Join NadaMoo at the First Annual Keep Austin Gluten Free event!

NadaMoo is proud to be gluten-free! Join us at the First Annual Keep Austin Gluten Free fair.

Learn more about gluten-free products & enjoy samples from local vendors. We’ll be at Food for Life restaurant in Cedar Park from 11am-3pm on Saturday, May 29th.

Food For Life, Gluten Free Restaurant

2051 Cypress Creek Road

Cedar Park, Texas 78613

For details, please visit www.keepaustinglutenfree.com

This weekend, NadaMoo! is proud to be part of the Children’s Miracle Network benefit in Austin.

If you’re a CostCo member, visit us at the North Austin store, enjoy a free scoop of NadaMoo, and tell CostCo that you would love to see NadaMoo in their stores!

NadaMoo will be at the CostCo at 10401 Research Blvd on Sunday, May 16th from 10am-2pm. This event is a fundraiser for children’s hospitals across the country. Last year CostCo events raised over $17 million for the Children’s Miracle Network. We invite you to attend this event & to help contribute to this worthy cause.

Saturday, May 8th is World Fair Trade Day. Celebrate at the Austin Fair Trade Film Festival with NadaMoo!

NadaMoo! is celebrating Fair Trade Day 2010 by participating in the First Annual Austin Fair Trade Film Festival at the Alamo Drafthouse this weekend. Learn about Fair Trade & enjoy free NadaMoo! from 2pm-6pm on Saturday May 8th at the Alamo South Lamar.

NadaMoo! is proud to have three of our delicious flavors Fair Trade certified. Java Crunch, Vanilla…ahhh, and Gotta do Chocolate are all certified as Fair Trade products. Products which can be Fair Trade certified include cocoa & chocolate, fresh fruit, sugar, vanilla, flowers and honey. Fair Trade certifications began in 1999, and coffee was the first crop to go through the certification process.

Fair Trade practices promote sustainable farming & fair wages for farm workers and they also help to ensure that farmers receive a fair price for their crops. Stop by the NadaMoo! table between 2 and 2:30 to answer a Fair Trade trivia question for a chance to win a ticket to one of the films, “Maquilapolis, City of Factories.”

For more details, visit http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=7317

NadaMoo! is proud to be part of the First Annual Austin Fair Trade Film Festival at the Alamo Drafthouse this weekend.

Learn about Fair Trade, enjoy live music, participate in panel discussions, and check out the Fair Trade Marketplace. You can also enjoy free NadaMoo! from 2pm-6pm on Saturday at the Alamo South Lamar.

NadaMoo! recently had three of our flavors certified as Fair Trade – Vanilla…ahh, Gotta Do Chocolate & Java Crunch. We have always used certified Fair Trade ingredients, and now these flavors are officially certified!!

Tell us how you support Fair Trade & you could win a ticket to see  ”BUYER BE FAIR: The Promise of Product Certification.” Email us at loveletters@nadamoo.com or post your answer on our Facebook page for a chance to win!

For more details on the Film Festival, visit http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=7317

For more details on Fair Trade, visit TransFair USA http://www.transfairusa.org/

Enjoy NadaMoo! at the Spring Plant Sale at the Denver Botanic Gardens this weekend!

From 10am-1pm on Saturday, you can enjoy delicious samples of NadaMoo! at the Spring Plant Sale at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

NadaMoo! will be under the Whole Foods tent, near the check-out area at York Street & 9th Avenue. There will be over 100,000 plants for sale & you can get free advice from horticulture experts while you stroll through the beautiful gardens. Admission is free, so come out & enjoy some NadaMoo!

For more details on the event, please visit

http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/spring-plant-sale

Agave nectar is sweeter than sugar, so we use less of it, which helps make NadaMoo! lower in calories, carbs and net dietary sugars. These are some of the reasons we choose to use agave instead of sugar. But there is also the ethical price of sugar.

This film will be part of the Fair Trade Film Festival in Austin on May 8.

http://www.thepriceofsugar.com/about.shtml

It will give you a good look at where some of the sugar we in the US eat comes from. You don’t have to choose agave over sugar, though we hope that if you use sugar you will make it Fair Trade Certified sugar.

We’ve always used certified Fair Trade ingredients in Vanilla …ahh, Gotta Do Chocolate, and Java Crunch and now these flavors are officially certified!

Fair Trade isn’t just a groovy logo to add to our line-up, it’s a commitment to support and promote the economic empowerment of farmers and farm workers; environmental sustainability; and safe working conditions.

When you buy Fair Trade certified products, you help us “do good”!

Learn more about Fair Trade at TransFair USA http://www.transfairusa.org/

Oh, Internet, you wonderful and crazy alternate reality.

We love you because you give us instant access to information, commerce and each other. But we’re not always sure about you, because when we’re online it’s hard to know what and whom to trust. Who is a “troll” and who is for real?

Take, for example, the recent gossip about agave nectar. Certain people have said intentionally provocative things, stirring up arguments that lack substance and relevance in the larger conversation about sweeteners. These people don’t disclose their motives or demonstrate lack of bias. Their data isn’t up to date and doesn’t meet reasonable standards of proof. Their credentials were not vetted by anyone, and they are not associated with any reputable health-related, scientific organizations or news outlets.

But, because of you, Internet, they can claim to be “experts” and know the “truth”. And if their posts are circulated and linked to often enough, they can do what they really want to do: They can scare and confuse people, replacing a real conversation with a false one.

So, what is the real conversation about agave nectar?

In the context of all sweeteners, the conversation includes: chemical versus natural; overuse in manufacturing versus over-consumption by people; cheap and dirty versus more expensive but sustainable processing; and a whole lot of side talk and opinions about what is and what isn’t “healthy”.

In the context of NadaMoo!, the real conversation is why we use agave and whether our supplier is trustworthy.

We use agave in NadaMoo! for three main reasons:

1. Quality: Agave is a natural sweetener – rather than a chemical one – and ours is organically, sustainably grown and processed with a small carbon footprint;
2. Nutritional Benefits: Agave tastes sweeter than sugar, so we can use less (one serving of vanilla NadaMoo! has 1 teaspoon of agave nectar, whereas one serving of regular vanilla ice cream has 4-5 teaspoons of sugar). The result is NadaMoo! is lower in calories, dietary sugars and carbs than most other brands that use caloric sweeteners;
3. Functionality: Agave, like any caloric sweetener in any ice cream or frozen dessert, plays a role in how NadaMoo! freezes and melts.

As for the trustworthiness of our supplier, Madhava is what we Texans call “good people” and we’re proud to be working with them. Because of this, I will let them speak for themselves. Please visit: http://www.agavemythbuster.com/ to read about the agave we use and learn more about our supplier.

OK, People of the Internet, let’s get back to using this thing the way it was meant to be used: watching educational videos on TED and shopping for shoes (of course)!

Amy
Founder, CEO, Mistress of Delicious