Sweet tooths
- From La Fraiseraie, at Pornic: sorbets, jams, preserves, fruit syrups, fruit jellies. 100% natural.
- Les Niniches, from La Baule and Le Pouliguen, chewy sweets with various flavours.
- Brioche, the famous sweet French bread, is actually a Vendée speciality.
- Quernons d'ardoise angevins: delicious nougat chocolates, coloured blue like the local slates.
- Berlingots and Rigolettes from Nantes: traditional sweets with a fruit filling.
- LU biscuits: the most famous are Petit-Beurre, from Nantes.
- BN de Nantes, yummy biscuits.
- Petit Sablé from Sablé-sur-Sarthe: these biscuits are made with fresh butter and recognised as a heritage food.
- St-Michel galettes (pancakes) from St-Michel-Chef-Chef and Batz-sur-Mer.
Savoury
- Bouchot musseld grown and ahrvested the traditional way: on wooden posts in Aiguillon Bay.
- Vendée Atlantique oysters, a quality product.
- Fresh sardines and anchovies brought ashore at Satint-Gille-Croix-de-Vie and La Turballe.
- Sea salt and the highly-prized fleur de sel salt from the Guérande and Noirmoutier salt pans.
- Bonnottes, famous new potatoes from Noirmoutier.
- Rillettes de Sarthe, meat spread made from pork or goose.
- Fouaces (or fouées): rolls and flat bread baked in a wood-fired oven and spread with rillettes, goat's cheese or local mogettes (beans)...
- Button mushrooms (champignons de Paris) cultivated for over a century in Saumur's limestone caves.
- Beurre blanc, the Loire Valley's own delicate sauce for river fish. Ingredients: white wine, vinegar, butter, shallots.
Drinks and liqueurs
- Cider and apple drinks from the Mayenne.
- Le Nantillais, a traditional syrup made from ginger, orange and lemon peel, and mixed with Muscadet or fizzy water.
- Kamok, a delicious coffee-based liqueur.
- Combier have made fruit-based liqueurs such as Guignolet d'Anjou in Saumur for 150 years.
- Cointreau: world famous orange liqueur made since 1849 at St-Barthélémy-d'Anjou, near Angers.