A lot of celebrity food products and drinks are straight up cash grabs. In part, that’s why we exist. We try all those weird celeb-branded hard seltzers and cereals and we tell you whether they’re actually good or a dirty waste of money. Spoiler alert: They’re mostly a waste of money. But there were two celebrity food products that we truly enjoyed in 2024. Here are the best celebrity foods released this past year.
Are Shaq Gummies the best candies we had in 2024? They are not. But these huge gummy candies are still super fun and much better than a lot of the other celeb-branded food products that came out this year. And they’re very, very big. Skip the peach, but enjoy the tang of the orange and fruit punchiness of the berry. Shaq spent a lot of his career asking Kobe Bryant how his rear end tasted, but we’re happy he chose to model his foray into confections after his face instead.
Giada De Laurentiis has done the impossible; she has made gluten free pasta so good it’s not just great gluten free pasta, it’s great pasta, period. Made with Italian-grown corn and rice flour (and even Italian water), her line of dried gluten free pasta is the best gluten free pasta we’ve ever had. The noodles cook up firm and flavorful. And the shapes are fun, too! There’s stelline (stars!), ziti corti (long, ridged ziti), and, our favorite, taccole corte (like mini lasagna sheets). Giada is a shining example to would-be-food-producing celebs everywhere. Don’t waste your star power. Use it for good.
We ate our way through hundreds of products this year to find the best. Now it’s time to honor the best of the best.
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Justine Sterling is the editor-in-chief of Sporked. She has been writing about food and beverages for well over a decade and is an avid at-home cook and snacker. Don’t worry, she’s not a food snob. Sure, she loves a fresh-shucked oyster. But she also will leap at whatever new product Reese’s releases and loves a Tostitos Hint of Lime, even if there is no actual lime in the ingredients.
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