Coconut Organics: A New Healthy Addiction

By Marla Milling Published November 13, 2014

The Big Love festival in Asheville, N.C. introduced us to a snack food we can’t get enough of and we’re sure you’ll love it too. How can you resist a healthy option that includes bacon? Yeah, we knew that would get your attention.

Coconut Organics, founded in 2010, produces CocoBacon—a vegan bacon alternative snack made from coconut chips. They spice and flavor them so they have the satisfaction and taste of real bacon, but better for you.

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Ingredients include toasted organic coconut chips, organic coconut oil, low-glycemic organic coconut sugar, sea salt, and organic mesquite smoke flavor and a unique spice blend. Price for a two-bag pack of CocoBacon is only six bucks or buy a case for $24.

But that’s not all. They also have plain coconut chips and another flavored with dark chocolate.

Give ’em a shot and let us know what you think.

Marla Milling

Former Digital Trends Contributor

Marla Hardee Milling is a full-time freelance writer living in a place often called the Paris of the South, Sante Fe of the…

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