"With our line of organic chocolate bars, we already had the source for the chocolate," states Nell. "The next step was developing the right recipe for a terrific tasting cookie. In searching for a way to have the highest percentage of organic ingredients possible without compromising the taste, we found the perfect answer in organic palm fruit oil. We were able to take out a non-organic ingredient, conventional butter, and replace it with an organic ingredient, palm fruit oil, and produce a wonderful cookie with no hydrogenated oils."

Organic palm fruit oil should not be confused with palm kernel oil. Organic palm fruit oil:

• Is not hydrogenated
• Contains no trans-fatty acids
• Is lower in saturated fat than butter and has no cholesterol
• Is widely used in Europe as an alternative to partially hydrogenated oils
• Is extracted from the palm's fruit not the palms kernel
• can be grown organically in tropical regions

Of the three tropical oils, Palm Fruit Oil is 50% saturated, while Palm Kernel Oil is 86%, and Coconut Oil is 92%.

We like too, that palm fruit oil comes from a part of Columbia where it’s production helps protect the area.

"Great tasting products that happen to be organic is our company's motto," states Nell. "Our new cookies definitely live up to that slogan. We've produced a line of cookies made with organic ingredients and we feel that they can compete with any packaged chocolate chip cookie currently in the stores."

Like all of Newman's Own Organics' products the Champion Chip Cookies have been certified organic by Oregon Tilth.

Paul Newman has given over $200 million to thousands of charities worldwide since 1982.