Saturday product reviews: Cheese sticks

Cheese sticks
Horizon Organic
Another good option for your kids' lunches: Horizon Organic's cheese sticks, available in mozzarella and colby. There are individually packaged sticks in each bag, bad for packaging, good for getting your kids to eat dairy at school.
And they're really tasty.
The mozzarella sticks have 80 calories and five grams of fat each (no trans fat).
The colby has 100 calories and nine grams of fat each (no trans fat).
If you're one of those "My kids won't get fat on my watch!" moms, keep in mind that these offer up 20 percent of your needed daily calcium. Let the kids have cheese, just get them moving, too.
And take a look at the ingredient lists for these cheese sticks:
Colby ingredients: Organic pasteurized cultured milk, salt, annatto (vegetable color), microbial enzymes (non-animal, rennetless)
Mozzarella ingredients: Organic pasteurized cultured part-skim milk, salt, microbial enzymes (non-animal, rennetless).
They're not using rennet. Rennet is a substance used to turn milk into cheese. It comes from the stomachs of baby cows.
Why make cheese without rennet? Let's just say the baby cows don't just hand over their tummies and keep chewing their cud.
I could list a million good things about Horizon Organic, but I'll just sum up the general idea: Family-owned farms, organic ingredients, better-treated cows, hormone-free milk, etc. The list keeps on going. Check it out yourself at Horizon Organic's Web site.