Totowa, NJ (July 2022) – Emre Imamoglu, CEO of Cibo Vita, an international manufacturer of healthy snack foods, was named Entrepreneur of the Year® — 2022 New Jersey Regional Award Winner — by Ernst & Young (EY) at an awards luncheon in NJ last month.

The world is full of fantastic, delicious, and innovative healthy gourmet snacks. That’s why we’ve tasted some of the best, and here’s what we found.

The Specialty Food Association announced that Nature’s Garden Probiotic Strawberry Yoggies have won a 2023 sofi Award in the New Confectionery Product – Non-Chocolate category. The Specialty Food Association’s (SFA) sofi Awards—which have been bestowed annually since 1972—are a top honor in the $175 billion specialty food industry.

This digital portal provides access to 300+ products submitted into the 2023 innovation awards program. Product submissions were taste-tested by 30 judges from leading retailers and distributors representing nearly 85 percent of U.S. confectionery and snack industry buying power. Three weighted criteria were used to assess each item: taste, innovation and packaging.