{"id":292339,"date":"2026-09-23T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292339\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:58:13","slug":"zahav-expands-its-hummus-varieties-sold-at-whole-foods-and-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292339\/","title":{"rendered":"Zahav expands its hummus varieties sold at Whole Foods and Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zahav Foods, the retail arm of Israeli restaurant Zahav, began selling two more hummus flavors at grocery stores in the Philadelphia region Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hummus Matbucha,\u00a0which features roasted red peppers, tomatoes and onions, and Hummus Harissa, which has a blend of sweet and spicy red peppers, are now available at Giant, Whole Foods and McCaffrey&#8217;s stores in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The 10-ounce packages cost $7.99 each. The flavors are kosher and free of gluten and seed oil.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/pigeon-mural-fishtown-graduate-hospital-bird-gang\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artist selling &#8216;Bird Gang&#8217; T-shirts to raise money to repaint 35-foot pigeon mural<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flavors are meant to be swirled, as they each include Zahav&#8217;s traditional hummus as a base and are topped with flavorings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zahav Foods now sells four hummus varieties in grocery stores. It debuted the original hummus in 2024 and Hummus Schug, which features green peppers and cilantro, in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three flavored varieties are inspired by dishes on the menu at Zahav, including chicken shishlik, eggplant schnitzel and beef shisklik. Matbucha is a mild flavor, while harissa and schug feature spicy peppers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The products are available at 185 Whole Foods stores in 20 states, 20 Giant stores in the Mid-Atlantic region and McCaffrey&#8217;s stores in the Philly region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zahav has won multiple James Beard awards since it opened in 2008, including outstanding restaurant. Owners\u00a0Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook also run several other restaurants, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/cooknsolo-restaurants-goldie-lilah-fishtown-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goldie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/laser-wolf-philly-best-new-restaurants-cond%C3%A9-nast-travelers-2021-hot-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laser Wolf<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/kfar-camille-cogswell-zahav-philly-best-new-chefs-food-wine-magazine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K&#8217;Far<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/federal-donuts-opening-willow-grove-location\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Donuts<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zahav Foods, the retail arm of Israeli restaurant Zahav, began selling two more hummus flavors at grocery stores&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[838,5478,18937,121162,69,71,70,5447,121161],"class_list":["post-292339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-food-drink","tag-giant","tag-hummus","tag-michael-solomonov","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-whole-foods","tag-zahav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}