This article showcases our top picks for the best North Carolina based Snack Food companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Snack Food industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top North Carolina Snack Food Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Barvecue
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Barvecue is a food company that offers barbecues for vegetarians.
Trinity Frozen Foods
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Trinity Frozen Foods grows over 50% of the sweet potatoes and is the acknowledged lead supplier of the type of sweet potato.
Big Cheese Pizza
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Big Cheese Pizza engages in the franchising business of a pizza brand.
Zaria’s Milk
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Zaria’s Milk is a food company that offers homemade lacctation cookies and baked goods for breastfeeding moms.
Sara Lee Frozen Bakery
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Sara Lee Frozen Bakery is a maker of frozen bakery and dessert products.
Pretzel Crisps
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Pretzel Crisps is a manufacturer and distributor of snack food products.
American Sprinkle
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American Sprinkle is a manufacturing company that produces and delivers sprinkles, confetti, colored sugar, and nonpareils products.
Macro Snacks
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Macro Snacks is a snack company that provides protein snacks that are also balanced with other key macronutrients.
Wings To Go
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Wings To Go is an online food store that specializes in chicken wings and buffalo wing sauces.
Hwy 55
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Hwy 55 is an open-grill diners chain that delivers a wide range of snacks and cuisines.
Clutch Coffee Bar
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Clutch Coffee Bar is a cafe that offers coffee, energy drinks, and specialty beverages with a drive-through experience.
Delight Soy
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Delight Soy is a food and beverage company that offers a variety of meat substitutes with the option of soy.
Ruth’s Salads
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Ruth’s Salads produces and distributes salads and spreads.
Brookwood Farms
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Brookwood Farms is a manufacturer of smoked meats and barbeque food products.
Bass Farm Sausage
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Bass Farm Sausage is a food processing company that offers sausages, patties, souse, and meat products.
Big Spoon Roasters
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Big Spoon Roasters is a food processing company that specialises in producing handcrafted nut butters and wholesome snack bars.
Artisan Tropic
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Artisan Tropic is a manufacturing company that provides tropical snacks, plantains, and cassava chips for wholesale customers.
Capitol Coffee
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Capital Coffee provides high-quality, customized coffee, beverage, and food solutions.
Piedmont Pennies
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Piedmont Pennies is a North Carolina handcrafted cheese snack store.
The Peanut Roaster
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The Peanut Roaster has been providing gourmet roasted happiness and gourmet roasted nuts.
Purple Crow
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Purple Crow is a food product manufacturer that provides flour tortilla, cheese dip, and rice pudding.
Truly Good Foods
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Truly Good Foods is a food and beverage distribution company that manufactures and offers snack mixes, candy, bars, nuts, and dry fruits.
Udderly Delicious Ice Cream
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Udderly Delicious Ice Cream is a homemade ice cream manufacturing company.
Wicked Crisps
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Wicked Crisps sells red curry hummus, roasted garlic, and asiago cheese.
Cackalacky
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Cackalacky is a food manufacturing company that offers sauces, seasonings, snacks, and coffee.
Cotton Candy Express
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Cotton Candy Express is an online shop that offers a wide range of cotton candy things.
FBomb
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FBomb is a food company that offers fat-based products that support healthy digestion.
Bake Eat Love
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E-commerce company that sells educational baking kits with pre-measured ingredients. Customers learn a new show stopper with each kit.
NxtBar
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NxtBar is a maker of paleo- and keto-friendly nutrition bars.
Lakeside Mills
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Lakeside Mills produces stone ground corn meal products.
Wilkerson Moravian Bakery
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Wilkerson Moravian Bakery sells sugar cake, cookies, and cheese straws.
Maple View Ice Cream
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Maple View Ice Cream is an ice-cream-making company that offers hormones and anti-biotic-free ice-creams and cakes made of farm-fresh milk.
Taylor Business Products
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Taylor Business Products provides ink, toner, office furniture, breakroom supplies, printing, janitorial items, and office products.
Carolina Nut
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Carolina Nut specializes in unique flavored nuts, flavored peanuts, spicy nuts and candied nuts.
Simply Southern Kitchen
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Simply Southern Kitchen is a restaurant that provides a variety of food, beverages, alcohol, snacks, online order, and catering services.
Papa’s Pizza To-Go
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Papa’s Pizza To-Go is a restaurant that provides pizza, breadsticks, hot and cold subs, chicken, salads, pasta, and desserts.
Snyder’s-Lance
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Snyder’s-Lance is a distributor of various snack food products.
The Secret Chocolatier
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The Secret Chocolatier is a food production company that specializes in baking and delivering chocolates, truffles, caramels, and toffees.
LC America
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LC America is a manufacturing company that distributes snack pellets, extruded snacks, and gluten-free and organic snacks.
Miss Jenny’s Pickles
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Miss Jenny’s Pickles is an online seller of salt and pepper pickles.
Cafe Carolina and Bakery
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Cafe Carolina and Bakery is a boutique restaurant that specializes in grilled paninis, flatbreads, fresh sandwiches, and soup dishes.
Goodness Gracie
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Goodness Gracie is an online food store that specializes in heavenly, oatmeal, banana nut, and cinnamon toffee cookie products.
American Skin
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American Skin is a manufacturer and supplier of cracklins, selects, seasonings, and a wide variety of pork rinds products.
World’s Best Carrot Cake
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World’s Best Carrot Cake is an offline and online store that offers a wide range of carrot cakes like organic, gluten, chocolate and mint.