#SSE18 Introducing Coconut Island, Innovative Coconut Confections

Anastasia Confections® introduces its new line of innovative coconut confections, Coconut Island®, featuring 2017 Most Innovative New Product Award Winner, Coconut Cashew Crunch. Tapping into consumers’ obsession for all things coconut, Anastasia leveraged its 30 years of coconut expertise to create Coconut Island’s two new product lines: multi-award-winning Coconut Cashew Crunch and Coco Bites™. Both lines are gluten free.

Coconut Cashew Crunch is a deliciously addictive tropical twist on a classic brittle, handmade in copper kettles with premium cashews, shredded coconut, butter, brown sugar, sea salt and a hint of island breeze. This thin, crunchy, sweet snack is on-trend with consumers’ demand for thin treats. “Thinning has been winning in the candy and snack aisles, as consumers seek both indulgent and better-for-you options,” said Krisztina Toth, Brand Manager of Anastasia Confections.

Coconut Cashew Crunch with Dark Chocolate Drizzle has already won three prestigious industry awards since its trade debut in 2017:

• Most Innovative New Product Award in the Gourmet/Premium Category at the NCA’s 2017 Sweets & Snacks Expo, where product submissions are rated on taste, packaging, innovation and go-to-market feasibility, by a panel of judges including leading candy and snack buyers and other food industry experts.
• sofi™ Product of the Year Award at the Specialty Food Association’s 2017 Summer Fancy Food Show, where it was selected from 3,000 entries across 39 categories by a national panel of 62 specialty food experts to win the competition’s highest honor and the first ever Product of the Year Award.
• Gold sofi Award in the Sweet Snacks Category in the Specialty Food Association’s 2017 sofi Awards competition, where products were judged in a blind tasting based on flavor, appearance, texture and aroma, as well as ingredient quality.

Coconut Cashew Crunch comes in three delicious flavors: Original Recipe, Dark Chocolate Drizzle and Key Lime, and is available in 5-ounce and 2.5-ounce stand-up pouches at suggested retail prices of $4.49 and $2.99 respectively.

Coco Bites is the other delicious new product line from Coconut Island. Based on Anastasia’s world-famous Coconut Pattie recipe, Coco Bites features moist shredded coconut drenched in rich, dark chocolate, topped with toasted coconut. It comes in three delicious flavors: Original Recipe, Key Lime and Pina Colada, and is available in 5-ounce and 2.5-ounce stand-up pouches at suggested retail prices of $4.49 and $2.99 respectively.

About Anastasia Confections
Anastasia Confections, makers of world-famous Coconut Patties, has been committed to creating innovative tropical confections since 1984. Its products, made in an SQF Level 2 facility in Orlando, Florida, include Coconut Patties, Salt Water Taffy, Choc-O-Gators, Key Lime Cookies and now Coconut Cashew Crunch and Coco Bites. Anastasia is a Las Olas Confections & Snacks brand.

Visit Anastasia at the Las Olas booth #769 at the Sweets & Snacks Expo. For more information, contact Phil DeWester, Vice President of Marketing, at 407.816.9944 x204 or pdewester@lasolasbrands.com.