The mother of Title IX has received pretty much any accolade a public icon can get: a museum installation, awards named after her, a namesake state park, her face on a quarter. And now, a spot in our State Based Treats Collection!

A third generation Hawaiian, Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first woman of color to serve in the United States Congress and the first Asian American woman to run for president. Though best known as principal author of Title IX (the foundational legislation that mandates gender based equality in federally funded education) Mink was the chief advocate of so many policy initiatives for equality and for so long, the first of her major legislative victories was vetoed by then President Richard Nixon!

The snack mix we've created in her honor is an homage to a mix that is a holiday standard in Hawaii: a cereal and snack food blend covered in a lightly sweetened and soy sauce kissed glaze and seasoned with authentic Japanese Aji Nori Furikake. We opted for fish shaped and holiday shaped pretzels as cheeky additions, and wasabi coated edamame for a pop of color and flavor.

A perfect blend of Hawaiian sweet and savory, a nod to the Congresswoman's Japanese ethnicity, and wink to the island's very American snack culture, this mix also memorializes Mink's family's connection to work on sugar cane plantation by using real superfine cane sugar. 

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Ingredients:  Toasted Almonds, Fish Shaped Pretzels (Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Vegetable Oil (Canola, Soybean and/or Sunflower), Salt, Baking Powder (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda, Monocalcium Phosphate), Malted Barley Flour, Dextrose, Nonfat Milk), Corn Square Cereal (Milled Corn, Sugar, Corn Bran, Salt, Molasses, Baking Soda, Mixed Tocopherols, Calcium Carbonate, Reduced Iron, Sodium Ascorbate, Niacinamide, Zinc Oxide, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Thiamin Mononitrate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12), Rice Square Cereal (Rice, Sugar, Salt, Molasses, Mixed Tocopherols, Calcium Carbonate, Reduced Iron, Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C), Niacinamide, Zinc Oxide, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Thiamin Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Vitamin A Palmitate, Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12), Sweetened Corn & Oat Cereal (Yellow Corn Flour, Sugar, Whole Grain Oat Flour, Whole Grain Yellow Corn Flour, Honey, Salt, Natural Flavor, Yellow 5, Wheat Starch, BHT added to preserve freshness. Vitamins and Minerals: Niacinamide (Vitamin B3), Reduced Iron, Zinc Oxide, Vitamin A Palmitate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Thiamin Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Folic Acid, Vitamin D3, Vitamin B12), Corn Syrup, Cane Sugar, Butter (Cream, Natural Flavors), Avocado Oil, Holiday Shaped Pretzels (Wheat Flour, Salt, Vegetable Oil (Corn Oil, Sunflower Oil, or Canola Oil), Malt Syrup, Sugar, Yeast, Baking Soda), Edamame (Soybeans, Sea Salt, Wasabi Oil, Dextrin), Furikake (Roasted White Sesame Seed, Sugar, Salt, Dried Green Seaweed, Roasted Black Sesame Seed, Hydrolyzed Corn Protein), Soy Sauce (Water, Wheat, Soybeans, Salt, Lactic Acid, Sodium Benzoate). 

Contains Almonds, Wheat, Soy, Sesame, and Milk