We are now accepting entries for our 2021 Best New Refrigerated Retail Products Contest. Similar to our recent frozen foods contest, we'll select 25 finalists for daily voting throughout the month of August on our website. The top-five with the most votes will be highlighted in a special section of our December magazine, and the overall winner will also be featured on an episode of our Cold Corner podcast.

On our latest Cold Corner Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Michael Costa sits down with Peter Bartzis and Liz Vanderhoef from Devanco Foods—which placed first in our 2021 Best New Frozen Retail Products Contest—to discuss the company’s winning No-MSG Chicken Gyros Kits, as well as their overall retail sales growth (150% year-over-year), sustainability goals, new product launches, family focused company culture, and distribution strategies for e-commerce and foodservice, which is rapidly ramping up as pandemic restrictions are lifted.

Congratulations to the top-five winners in our 2021 Best New Frozen Retail Products Contest! These five companies pulled away from the pack of 20 nominated products in online voting from April 2 to May 2, and will be honored with individual Q&As in our July magazine. The #1 overall winner—Devanco Foods—is also featured in a special contest episode of our Cold Corner podcast. You can listen to Devanco's podcast here. 

Our Best New Frozen Retail Products Contest is officially live, where you can vote for one of 20 frozen food finalists. You can vote once a day for any of the finalists through May 2. See inside for more details. 

Yasso Frozen Greek Yogurt, the world's first frozen Greek yogurt bar launched its first snackable offering with the debut of Yasso Poppables, creamy frozen Greek yogurt bites covered in a chocolatey coating and sprinkled with quinoa crunch.

Veggies Made Great is on a mission to create the highest quality, delicious and nutritionally smart veggie-rich foods that are ready to eat and available everywhere. 

Valpizza’s SuperNapoli line of frozen pizza is rooted in the Italian pizzeria tradition, with the purpose of keeping its main features intact: traditional Italian hand-stretching of natural leavened dough, wood firing and stone baking, attention to ingredients using only 100% Italian tomato sauce and flours from 100% Italian grains, the goal to enhance the pizza making art and the authentic Italian aromatic profile.

These artisan entrée bowls from Sweet Earth combine globally inspired flavors with the brand's newest plant-based proteins, including Mindful Chik'n and Awesome Grounds.

Saffron Road—the clean-label, world cuisine leader on a mission to bring people together through authentic, global flavors and wholesome, real ingredients—added two new restaurant-quality frozen entrees to their Thai cuisine product line: Thai Red Curry Chicken, and Thai Basil Noodles.