Devanco Foods is focused on creating cleaner and healthier products, and the brand’s Beef Bacon has more protein, fewer calories, fewer carbs, and less fat than traditional pork bacon.
Clio Snacks, the fresh snacking brand behind the world’s first refrigerated Greek yogurt bar wrapped in chocolate, has introduced a new line of Less Sugar bars, leveraging a proprietary manufacturing process to achieve its notable cheesecake-like yogurt experience.
Califia Farms Protein Oat is a one-of-a-kind, protein-packed oat milk that provides consumers with a low sugar, nutritionally superior alternative to dairy milk and other plant-based milk options—any added sugar comes from the natural breakdown of oats.
Blount’s Family Kitchen Plant-Based Chili was recently added to our lineup of refrigerated comfort bowls located in the deli section of your grocery store.
Blount Fine Foods
has created an authentic
Clam Shack
New England Clam Chowder, thick and
rich, made with sweet cream and flavorful clam broth, loaded with chunks of clams, potatoes and
spices.
Refrigerated & Frozen Foods has hosted a Best New Retail Products Contest since 2013, but 2021 is the first time we’ve split frozen and refrigerated products into separate annual competitions. The first leg this year was for frozen foods, and after a month of voting throughout April, our top five was set based on vote totals from the public.
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.