Venial Vegetable Trickery

This week’s mission: a snack mix with Cheerios, and frozen vegetables with health claims.

Bad Expensive Tea

This week’s mission: a fruit-flavored party drink and classy tea bags.

Crazy Pretzel Sandwich

This week’s mission: off-kilter but refreshing soft drinks and a zesty hodgepodge of a pretzel snack.

Injectable Marinades and 100-Calorie Snacks

This week’s mission: marinade you squirt into meat with a syringe, and tinier snack cakes.

Soy Cheese That Isn't Hateful

This week’s mission: shelf-stable chili and fake cheese fragments.

What's That Coconut Doing in My M&M's?

This week’s mission: new flavor twists on classic candies.

Mysteries of Tempeh Revealed

This week’s mission: a seasoned meat substitute, and fancified potato buds.

Toaster Pastries Fit for a Monk

This week’s mission: ready-made meals for gluten allergy sufferers and a healthier alternative to Pop-Tarts.

Beer-Flavored Sausage: Genius or Travesty?

This week’s mission: bratwurst with beer flavor already inside.

See Recipe on Back

Concoctions cribbed off the back of a box that are good enough to pass as your own.

All-American Drunk

This week’s mission: category-defying light rum and spiced apple schnapps from the Midwest.

What Is Freezer Burn?

That stale taste and cardboard texture are no good.

Chewing Gum Arms Race

This week’s mission: a green tea cure-all and gum with a one-two flavor punch.

Chicken in a Burger Suit

This week’s mission: preseasoned, grillable chicken patties and fancified crackers.

Cheesy Chips Mellow Out

This week’s mission: A subtler take on a corn chip favorite, and a terrific “natural” fruit drink.