Potato chips contain three ingredients: potatoes, oil, and salt. Mass market chips are cooked mostly in genetically modified corn oil and use heavily processed salt mined from underground deposits. Some mass-market users of potatoes, including McDonald’s, have announced that will start using genetically modified potatoes later in 2014.
MOON Co-op is featuring potato chips for the Super Bowl that will appeal to fans of both teams. For Seahawk fans, chips made in Salem, Oregon (50 miles from the Washington State line) feature all-organic ingredients, including the potatoes.
For Bronco fans, chips made in Colorado are cooked in either avocado oil or olive oil and flavored with sea salt produced through evaporation of ocean or saltwater lakes. The company purchases renewable energy credits to cover 100 percent of its operations, and packages the chips in compostable bags produced from wood pulp purchased from a sustainable tree plantation.
Disappointed Patriots and 49ers fans can choose organic pretzels made either in New England or in the Bay Area. MOON’s pretzels use organic wheat flour, whereas mass market pretzels contain enriched wheat flour, corn syrup, and preservatives.
The soft drinks at MOON Co-op are sweetened with agave instead of the high fructose corn syrup used in mass-market soft drinks. They are bottled in Brooklyn, a few miles from this year’s Super Bowl site.
The other top 10 Super Bowl foods are sandwiches No. 5, salads No. 6, chicken wings No. 7, milk No. 8, pizza No. 8, and tea No. 10. No beer in the top 10?
I guess a lot of milk-drinking kids watch the game, and a lot of folks in warmer parts of the country drink iced tea (or a lot of British are watching the Super Bowl — actually an English friend flying here on Feb. 2 will be watching with me).
In a town like Oxford that is awash in beer, MOON’s selection includes organic, gluten-free, and little-known regional beers, at state minimum prices. Seahawk fans can choose wine from Washington State.
For those uninterested in the Super Bowl and snack foods, I recommend watching the Puppy Bowl on the Animal Planet cable channel or YouTube. Needless to say, I’ll be rooting for that ultra-cute yellow lab.
Oh yes, I didn’t reveal the most popular Super Bowl snack food according to market research. Believe it or not, No. 1 is cut-up vegetables — hopefully organic from MOON Co-op.
Super Bowl snacks are available at MOON Co-op Grocery, Oxford's consumer-owned full-service grocery featuring natural, local, organic, sustainable, and Earth-friendly products. MOON Co-op, located at 512 S. Locust St. in Oxford, is open to the public every day. Visit MOON online at www.mooncoop.coop.
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