7. Ben & Jerry's Flipped Out! We're flipped out over the idea that Ben & Jerry's could make our worst-of list, but these upside-down sundaes richly deserve it because of brownies and toppings that aren't Ben & Jerry's trademark rich.

8. SunnyD Smoothies Juice and Dairy Beverages. Bonnie complained that these lack all the milk and juice nutrients in real smoothies; Carolyn, that it looks and tastes like kids' liquid antibiotics.

BONNIE'S FAVORITES

1. Sunkist Natural Tangerine Juice. This not-from-concentrate, seasonal 100 percent juice tastes delicious and is chock-full of vitamins and minerals. I also liked Sunkist Natural's Valencia Orange variety.

2. Haagen-Dazs Five Mint Ice Cream. My favorite flavor of a premium ice cream made with only five ingredients. With fewer calories and less fat than in Haagen-Dazs regular, I can indulge more often.

3. Jif Natural Peanut Butter Spread. Natural ingredients are only the start of the good things about this delicious new Jif: It also has half the sodium of regular peanut butter and, unlike regular peanut butter, contains no trans fats.

4. Kettle Cuisine Three Bean Chili. A tasty gluten-free, organic, all-natural vegetarian chili, containing ingredients I'd use when making my own.

5. Just Bare All-Natural Chicken. This chicken company has raised the clean labeling trend to a new level: The see-through packaging identifies the farm where this all-natural, hormone- and antibiotic-free chicken once roamed free-range.

6. Seeds of Change Madras Indian Simmer Sauce. A great-tasting red curry simmer sauce that's much lower in sodium than the competition.

7. Kerrygold Liquor-Infused Aged Cheddar With Irish Whiskey and Dubliner With Irish Stout. Rich and creamy Irish cheese, one infused with whiskey, the other with stout.

8. Campbell's Select Harvest Tomato Bisque. This good-tasting, chunky tomato soup is part of this company's campaign to reduce sodium. This Select Harvest line also uses real ingredients and contains no artificial flavors or added MSG. And this Tomato Bisque variety contains a decent 3 grams of fiber per 1 cup serving.

9. Buitoni 100 Percent Whole Wheat Linguine. Regular pasta contains neither fiber nor whole grains. This one is 100 percent whole wheat, with 6 grams of fiber and 16 grams of whole grains (equal to one of the three servings recommended daily), and tastes as good as regular pasta.

CAROLYN'S FAVORITES

1. Yoplait Delights Parfait Lowfat Yogurt. Different diet yogurt flavors are layered to mimic Neapolitan ice cream and lemon chiffon pie, among other classic desserts. The result? The best new 100-calorie treat since Skinny Cow Fudge Bars.

2. Buitoni Riserva All Natural Filled Pastas. The answer to the question: Is there a refrigerated pasta product that is gourmet but not over the top? The Wild Mushroom Agnolotti and Chicken & Four Cheese are so good and interesting, they don't even need a sauce.

3. Batter Blaster Pancake & Waffle Batter Mix in a Can. Pre-made pancake batter dispensed in the speedy, convenient and fun manner of shaving cream. What is even more surprising: The batter is organic and the can green.

4. Act II HomePop Classic Microwave Popcorn. A Pop Secret Homestyle knockoff with Act II's trademark recession-friendly pricing.

5. Simply Asia Steamers for Chicken. Steamer bags you fill with the supplied seasonings, your own chicken breast meat and a few other simple ingredients to create a fresh- and authentic-tasting Asian meal in minutes. A wonderful reminder of how great microwave cooking can be.

6. Amy's Organic Cakes. Chocolate and the even better Orange frozen, breakfast-bread-like loaves whose great taste and fleur-de-lis paper are suggestive of a gourmet bakery. (The line recently expanded to include Lemon Poppyseed.)

7. Marie Callender's Pasta Al Dente. Marie goes upscale Italian with this full-flavored but calorie-restrained (at least by comfort-food Callender standards) frozen steamer bowl dinner line. Like having an Olive Garden in your freezer.

8. Nestle Cranberry Raisinets. Dried cranberries replace the raisins in this improvement on the tooth-achingly sweet original Raisinets. But why aren't they called Craisinets?

9. Frank's RedHot Sweet Heat BBQ Wing Sauce. Wings are an inexpensive appetizer that, when you use this convenience product, are also incredibly easy and delicious -- although this sauce is not truly hot, and the more traditional Hot Buffalo sauce that debuted at the same time is nowhere near as good.

And now for our joint No. 10 pick, the winner of this year's Golden Shopping Cart Award for best new food product of 2009: Kellogg's FiberPlus Antioxidant Bars.

Bonnie: One reason we selected Kellogg's FiberPlus as our 20th Golden Shopping Cart recipient is that these new bars hit several of this year's nutritional hot buttons at once. Notice I didn't say nutritional fads, because the fiber, whole grains and antioxidants in these bars have scientific backing and staying power. One bar has 9 grams of fiber, or one-third of the daily recommended consumption, about half a serving of the three daily recommended servings of whole grains, and are excellent sources of the antioxidants zinc and vitamin E.

In addition to all that nutrition, these have an attribute that never goes out of style -- good taste, which ensures that people will eat these bars and benefit from their good ingredients. The Chocolate Almond variety is my favorite.

Carolyn: Almost 80 percent of the new products we wrote about this year won't be around next year. I'd guesstimate that includes about 80 percent of the products designed to cash in on the latest nutritional trends, claiming to be both good-tasting and good for you.

Kellogg's FiberPlus is a rare case of this food dream come true.

Kellogg's FiberPlus Antioxidant Bars are fiber and antioxidants in the guise of chocolate-covered Rice Krispies Treats. In fact, these bars are superior to many snack bars that are being marketed on their supposed indulgence -- including Kellogg's own Special K Bliss bars and Quaker True Delights.

In fact, the only thing that could be improved here is these bars' scarily medicinal name.