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Over the past few years, Mambo Sprouts Marketing has been inviting consumers to share their best healthy recipes for a chance to be featured online and published in the Mambo Sprouts Messenger newsletter. Now Mambo Sprouts Marketing is giving consumers the opportunity to win money and other great prizes for their delicious creations.

Organic and natural food manufacturers Green & Black’s, Organic Valley, Swanson, San-J and Jane’s Krazy Mixed-Up Seasonings are offering $2,500 in cash or other fabulous prizes for their consumers’ original recipes. Five recipes will be chosen by Mambo Sprouts in five separate categories and will be posted online for readers to vote on their favorites. Consumers can enter their recipes online at www.mambosprouts.com or fill out the entry form found in Mambo Sprouts coupon/offer books distributed via mail and in natural and mass supermarkets throughout the country. The contest runs through May 31, 2005.

Individual category grand prizes will run up to $1,000, with runner-ups receiving a year’s supply of products from Organic Valley Soy Milk, Swanson Organic Broth, San-J products, and Jane’s Krazy Mixed-Up Seasonings Salt. Winners may also receive Green & Black’s Chocolate Recipes from the Cacao Pod to Muffins, Mousses, and Moles Recipe Book, 200 Years with San-J Cookbook, or a set of Japanese ceramics.

Online voting for the five finalists per category will run from July 1, 2005 through July 15, 2005. During this time consumers will have the opportunity to vote by category for their favorite finalist entry to determine the grand prize winner. Voters will be encouraged to judge the entries based on use of product, appetite appeal, originality/creativity, and nutritional value.

Consumers may enter in more than one category; however, each entry must feature a different recipe and must be original. Specific contest rules with category and eligible products are available at www.mambosprouts.com. To enter via mail, consumers should submit an official entry form or on a plain 3” x 5” piece of paper, handprint their name, address, phone number, e-mail address, age and title of their recipe and entry category along with a typed original recipe on an 8 ½” x 11” piece of paper. Entries should be submitted to Mambolicious Cook-Off, P.O. Box 68, Haddonfield, NJ 08033, with recipe title printed on the outside corner of the mailing envelope.

Mambo Sprouts Marketing develops and executes direct mail, retail, web and market research programs targeted at health, natural and organic products consumers. The company is located in Haddonfield, NJ. For more information on Mambo Sprouts Marketing or the healthy recipe contest, visit www.mambosprouts.com.

Contact:
Tanya Reid
856-354-8100