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    <periodOfReport>2010-03-03</periodOfReport>

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    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000799426</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>NEW WORLD BRANDS INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>NWBD</issuerTradingSymbol>
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            <rptOwnerCik>0001476306</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>P&amp;S Spirit, LLC</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>2001 SW 20TH STREET</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2></rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>FORT LAUDERDALE</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>FL</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>33315</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
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            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>1</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
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    </reportingOwner>

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                <value>2010-03-03</value>
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                <transactionCode>P</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
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                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
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                <value>warrants</value>
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                <value>0.2098</value>
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                <value>2010-03-03</value>
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            <exerciseDate>
                <value>2010-03-03</value>
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                <value>2010-12-31</value>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Of 201,144,633 shares of New World Brands Inc. stock that may be deemed beneficially owned by P&amp;S, 171,936,677 are shares of common stock, and 29,207,956 are shares that could be acquired by the exercise of warrants.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">These shares, and the warrants listed herein, are in escrow and subject to a risk of forfeiture, and return to BOS Better Online Solutions, Ltd., in the event certain scheduled payments are not made by P&amp;S.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Yigal D. Kahana, Esq.</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2010-03-16</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
