‘Today Jamba Juice launches a complete range of delicious simple and on-the-go food items’.

‘Jamba Juice announced their most significant addition to its menu offerings since it’s opening in 1990, with a rollout spread of California flat breads, wraps and cold tea infusions. Satisfying high customer demand for great tasting, on-the-go food for a healthy lifestyle, Jamba Juice’s tasty new  items are made with high quality, good-for-you ingredients and will be available in 222 California locations for the time being. Following the successful launch of Jamba’s oatmeal topped with organic oats and berries this past winter, they hope to transform the companies entire concept to offer simple and healthy options to their customers other than just their great smoothies!’

One of the many perks to working for foodBEAST is sometimes we are offered amazing opportunities like the one that Jamba gave me this last Friday. Upon my flight arrival in San Fransisco, myself and about 12 other website editors were able to tour the Jamba headquarters, see the employee smoothie kitchen, and then actually test all of their new food items in their magnificent test kitchen. Check after the jump for my entire experience and why Jamba Juice is making competitors scared.

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Muggy day in the bay, but beautiful day anyway because of where I was about to end up at!

HQ!

So simple, yet so true.

Getting the break down.

New window displays, if those don’t make you hungry something is wrong with you.

New flatbread ad.

Colorful hallways and now the employee kitchen:

Stay clean!

Fruit!!!

I want one of these at my house so bad, fresh squeezed o.j. everyday from my orange tree. *That’s a hint Jamba =D*

So that was the employee kitchen, where they can snack and make up their own crazy smoothies everyday. Now here is where they do flavor testing, their sensory booth. The red lights make it so it’s all one color and you can’t define what it may or may not taste like due to its color.

Here we go with the grab-and-go!

But we have to have some oatmeal first, with fresh apple cinnamon crunch on top, or blackberries, or bananas.

We’ll start with the fruit tea fusions:

There is a pomegranate, passion fruit and prickly pear. I had the pom and passion but not the pear and they were mighty tasty.

Here is the Gobble’licious. A sandwich filled with sliced roasted turkey breast, provolone cheese, field greens, sliced red bell peppers, on a focaccetta roll. I loved how sweet the bread was, and how fresh everything tasted.

Then comes the wraps starting with this greens and grain wrap, which happens to be 100% vegan. No artificial flavors, no artificial preservatives, 0 trans fats, and no high fructose corn syrup. It is filled with red quinoa and hummus wrapped with fresh field greens in a spinach tortilla served with a mango vinaigrette. I personally can’t stand lettuce of any kind, but this thing was awesome.

Next up is my personal favorite of the four, the chimichurri chicken wrap. Filled with grilled chipotle-lime chicken breast, fresh field greens and sweet corn all wrapped in a herbed tortilla and served with a chimichurri sauce on the side. This one has a little kick but the flavor is incredible, a must try!

This wonderful piece we have here is Jamba’s Greek goodness wrap. Feta cheese, chopped kalamata olives, fresh field greens all wrapped in a beet tortilla and served with a Greek vinaigrette on the side make up this wrap that makes you feel like you’re at a fancy Italian restaurant. If those restaurants served wraps that is.

Lastly we have their new Asian style chicken wrap. Grilled chicken breast, fresh field greens, shredded carrots and jicama all wrapped in a tomato tortilla and served with a mango vinaigrette. The mango sauce you could just drink by itself it’s so good, just adds this amazing taste to all the already excellent wraps.

James White, President and CEO of Jamba Juice, stepped in for a few minutes to have some food with us, and talk shop. Pretty stoked.

Then 2 new salads, a chicken Caesar and a couscous & produce. Seriously so fresh and so flavorful. I keep saying that but that’s the best way I can describe these foods, because especially for something that is quick and you can just grab for the road, the flavor itself was phenomenal.

The couscous and produce was a new one for me. It was filled with Israeli couscous, diced jicama, red bell peppers, currants, and sliced almonds on a bed of crisp romaine and field greens, served with a whole grain mustard dressing on the side. I seriously can’t wait to go get one of these with my smoothie, it was delicious.

Lastly we have their four new California flat breads, that seem like mini pizzas but have such an array of different ingredients I can see why they aren’t. These were all excellent from the Four cheesy or the smokehouse chicken to their Tomo Artichoko or MediterraneYum. I want all of these at the same time just so I can have a little bit of each of them and mix-match all the flavors together.

Lastly we all got to try their new smoothie called the Blackberry Blitz. I loved this so much that I went and got one the next day after I got home.

And here is the rest of the test kitchen.

I just want to thank Jamba Juice so very much for bringing me up to their offices to let me test out all of the wonderful new food items they have to offer. I loved everything and look forward to seeing it in stores for myself, and getting a gobble’licious and a blackberry blitz. Actually they are open for another 15 minutes, I’m gonna go get that right now.