ERIE, CO — Mary’s Gone Crackers and Simple Mills were among the 10 companies recognized by the National Honey Board’s Queen’s Choice Awards for new product innovations featuring honey.
“Honey’s flavor, functionality and marketability are some of the few product attributes we evaluated when naming our 2022 Queen’s Choice Award winners,” said Catherine Barry, director of marketing for the National Honey Board. “We are thrilled to see so many food and beverage brands turn to honey to provide consumers with an all-natural and unprocessed sweetener.”
The awards celebrate the product development teams’ progressive new products made containing honey. This year’s product submissions were evaluated for flavor, packaging and the item’s marketplace positioning.
Mary’s Gone Kookies in the Honey flavor, a sweet graham-style product from Mary’s Gone Crackers, was heralded for the use of honey as a natural sweetener that also accentuates other product flavors cinnamon and chocolate. Simple Mills’ Sweet Thins in the Honey Cinnamon flavor stood out to the National Honey Board for the company’s innovative use of watermelon seed flour complemented by honey.
The full list of winners can be found on the organization’s website.
