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Melt Bar & Grilled

840 N. High St., Short North

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Not only does Melt offer the best vegetarian bar snack in the city (those tofu wings, mah lawd!), but the almost-infinite combinations of sandwiches you can make yourself with ingredients like housemade seitan, tofu bacon, vegan chorizo and vegan pulled chicken make this a more-than-welcome addition to the citys meatless dining scene.

Runners-up: The Angry Baker, Explorers Club

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Best vegetarian: Melt Bar & Grilled

Morristown, N.J. (PRWEB) March 26, 2015

Capsugel, a global leader in delivering high-quality, innovative dosage forms and solutions, today announced that the company is investing more than $25 million to increase production capacity and deliver further quality enhancements for its industry-leading vegetarian capsules. The investment is enabling a combination of new production lines and technology upgrades at four manufacturing locations in Capsugels global network: Greenwood, South Carolina, U.S.; Puebla, Mexico; Colmar, France; and Sagamihara, Japan. These investments began in late 2014, and the majority of the funding is taking place in 2015.

Consumers appetite for clean-label products is at an all-time high, and continuing to grow. This trend has contributed to a significant increase in demand for high-quality vegetarian capsules, said Guido Driesen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Capsugel. Capsugel has the worlds broadest and largest portfolio of vegetarian capsules for both the health and nutrition (H&N) and pharmaceutical segments. By continuing to invest in capacity and quality, we are further strengthening our ability to meet the growing demand we are seeing from customers around the world.

Capsugels vegetarian portfolio includes Vcaps, Vcaps Plus, DRcaps and Plantcaps capsules, all of which are preservative-free, GMO-ingredient-free and gluten-free. The company is investing in all four products with a particular emphasis on ramping up production of its premium Vcaps Plus vegetarian capsules, which deliver excellent performance on customers' filling machines, provide dynamic branding opportunities and may offer technical advantages for pharmaceutical product formulations.

Given our size and scale, Capsugel has an unmatched ability to address global market demand by significantly expanding our production capacity, said Erasmo Schutzer, Sr. Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Capsugel. We are committed to investing in the production capacity, technology and quality systems necessary to continue delivering high-quality, innovative solutions to our customers.

ABOUT CAPSUGEL Capsugel is a global leader in delivering high-quality, innovative dosage forms and solutions to its customers in the health care industry. The companys Hard Capsule business offers customers the broadest portfolio of gelatin, vegetarian, and other specialized capsule technologies. Capsugels Dosage Form Solutions (DFS) business utilizes an array of proprietary technologies and specialized manufacturing capabilities to solve customers most pressing product development challenges, including bioavailability enhancement, modified release, abuse deterrence, biotherapeutic processing, and inhalation formulation. The company's fast-to-clinic program streamlines product development from pre-formulation through clinical and commercial supply for finished dosage forms. Headquartered in Morristown, N.J., Capsugel serves more than 4,000 customers in more than 100 countries. For additional information, visit http://www.capsugel.com.

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By KRISTIN J. BENDER Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Three organic food companies that use spinach in their food have recalled hundreds of thousands of items over listeria concerns.

Organic food company Amy's Kitchen has voluntarily recalled about 74,000 cases of frozen and prepackaged products containing spinach.

It comes after one of Amy's suppliers issued a recall notice saying the Petaluma-based company may have received organic spinach possibly tainted with the bacteria that causes listeria.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials are aware of the recall.

The disease can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women

The company reports it has not had any complaints of illnesses from the products being recalled in the United States and Canada.

The recalled items include vegetable lasagna, tofu vegetable lasagna, garden vegetable lasagna, tofu scramble, enchilada verde meal, spinach pizza, brown rice and vegetables bowl, stuffed pasta shells bowl, gluten-free tofu scramble and the breakfast wrap.

Rochester-based Wegmans Food Markets is recalling roughly 12,540 packages of Wegmans organic spinach due to possible contamination with listeria. The 12-ounce product was sold in the frozen food department of the company's 85 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts between Jan. 27, and March 21.

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