Gear Patrol • 2/25/15 By Matthew Ankeny   If your pantry looks like mine, the garlic, onions and bananas fight for space among the blocks, gels and bars. It’s a stark contrast of produce and produced, the former with their natural irregularities of size and form, the latter boxed in brightly colored cardboard, rigid and…

New Hope 360 • 2/3/15 By Jenna Blumenfield Redd Superfood Energy Bar Chocolate Brownie I know, another bar. But Redd’s new chocolate-flavored bar contains an impressive blend of high-nutrient foods like quinoa, chia, oats and superfood powders including acai, acerola, blackberry, mangosteen and even the Brazilian fruit jabuticaba. Each 250-calorie bar delivers 10 grams of…

Bangor Daily News • 1/16/15 (Full Article) By Kathleen Pierce   PORTLAND, Maine — “What could be more American than a brownie?” Alden Blease says, nibbling on a healthy version of the baked good at Omi’s Coffee Shop in Portland’s West End. Coated in quinoa and packed with vitamins, the breakfast choice for this 24-year-old…

Gear Junkie • 1/2/15 (Full Article) By Billy Brown       It’s a protein bar…and an energy shot…with a multivitamin thrown in. But, most importantly, it’s a delicious brownie. There’s a glut of snack and meal replacement bars on the marketplace that take great pains to cram as much nutrition into an edible 3-inch-by-5-inch…

Outside Magazine Online • Jan 1, 2015 (Full Article) By: Frederick Reimers   With cold-friendly ingredients that are as tasty as they are wholesome, these snacks may be the hardest-working thing on the slopes On ski tours, I’m partial to snacking on a PB &J made with Dave’s Killer Bread, toasted to keep it from getting…

Maine Biz • June 16, 2014 (Full Article) By Lori Valigra   Alden Blease already graduated from the school of hard knocks by the time he enrolled in this year’s Top Gun program for entrepreneurs. The co-founder of Redd LLC, a Brunswick start-up that makes healthy convenience foods, says he planned to start manufacturing a year ago,…