This article showcases our top picks for the best Minnesota based Food Processing companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food Processing 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 Minnesota Food Processing Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Kraft Heinz
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The Kraft Heinz Company is the third-largest food and beverage company in North America
Devenish Nutrition
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Devenish Nutrition is a farming and food company,
So Good So You
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So Good Brand is a Minnesota-based company and a producer of natural organic beverages and food products.
General Mills
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General Mills is a food company that manufactures and markets branded consumer foods.
Local Crate
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Local Crate is a food and beverage delivery service company.
Apparo
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Apparo is a food processing technology intended to process crops in order to maximize the yield of available nutrients.
WholeMe
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WholeMe creates nutrient-dense, delicious, convenient foods.
Hormel Foods
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Hormel Foods is a Fortune 500, multinational manufacturer and marketer of consumer-branded food and meat products.
Bite Squad
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BiteSquad is a restaurant delivery service provider.
Land O’ Lakes
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Land O’Lakes is a member-owned, idea-driven agricultural cooperative that markets our products under a well known family of brands.
Caribou Coffee Company
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Caribou Coffee, they believe this to be true: that if passion, hard work and excellence go into an endeavor, the outcome will be a quality
Schwan’s Shared Services,LLC
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Schwan Food Company is a multibillion-dollar private company with more than 12,000 employees.
Rise Baking Co.
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Rise Baking is the preeminent manufacturer of premium cookies, dessert bars, artisan breads and flat breads.
Flagstone Foods
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Flagstone Foods (formerly Snacks Holding Company), headquartered in St. Paul, MN, owns Ann’s House of Nuts and Amport Foods.
GNP Company
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GNP Company produces, processes, and distributes branded and custom chicken products in the United States.
Otrafy
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Otrafy is a Quality Management Software that optimizes and administers vendor relationship for quality assurance departments.
ImagoAI
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ImagoAI does real-time food safety & quality analysis using a combination of Hyperspectral Imaging and Artificial Intelligence.
Zinpro Corp.
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Zinpro is a food production company specializing in organic trace minerals and nutrition.
Milk Specialties Group
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Milk Specialties Global Human Nutrition is a customized protein ingredient provider.
Bellisio Foods
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Bellisio Foods operates as a fastest growing frozen food companies.
Dessert Holdings
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Dessert is manufacturer of high-quality frozen desserts for retail and foodservice customer.
The Pillsbury Company
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The Pillsbury Company offers genius recipes for apples and slow-cooker dinner winners.
Punch Pizza
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Punch Pizza is a chain specializes in traditional Neapolitan pizza.
S.T. Specialty Foods
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S.T. Specialty Foods produces pasta and rice dinners.
Niman Ranch Rewiews
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Niman Ranch reviews are from consumers who love the complete line of fresh beef, pork, lamb, and cage-free eggs the company produces
JonnyPops
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JonnyPops is produces wholesome and better-for-you frozen treats, using real fruit as the main ingredient.
Buddy’s Kitchen Inc.
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Buddy’s Kitchen produces and distributes custom frozen food.
Lehmann Farms
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Lehmann Farms is a food and beverages company offering gourmet foods.
Robinsonfresh
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Robinson Fresh best fruits and vegetables, but we go beyond supplying fresh produce to offering an abundance of fresh solutions.
Midwest Home Brewing and Wine Making Supplies
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Midwest Home Brewing and Wine Making Supplies is a food and beverage company located in Minneapolis.
The National Food Lab
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The National Food Lab is a consulting and testing company supporting the food and beverage industry.
eatiply
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Eatiply is a hunger project that partners with local businesses to donate one meal for every featured product or service that is purchased.
Betty Crocker
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Betty Crocker is your ultimate guide to mastering the kitchen—one ingredient, technique, shortcut or substitution at a time.
Premier Restaurant Equipment Co
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Premier Restaurant Equipment Co is supplies food service equipment and designs
Live Better Brands
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A Minneapolis-based maker of natural tortilla chips and crackers
Bepex
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Bepex provides processing systems & products that involve processes like thermal processing, size reduction & agglomeration for industries.
ZoneTrader
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ZoneTrader offers full-service asset recovery services to companies in the automotive, technology, food processing and petrochemical.
Sanos Nutrition
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Sanos Nutrition producers of alternative proteins to improve the economics and sustainability of animal production.
Step One Foods
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Step One Foods is a web portal that offers key nutrient products to help lower cholesterol and improve cardiovascular health.
Rahr Corporation
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Rahr Corporation is a producer and distributor of barley malt and related brewing supplies.
The Oceanaire
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The Oceanaire provides the perfect setting to enjoy the freshest seafood flown in daily from around the world.
Lancer Hospitality
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Lancer Hospitality provides professional food management services.
Davisco Foods International
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Davisco Foods is a global dairy manufacturer specializing in improving overall health and nutrition.
Ryt-way Industries
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Ryt-way Industries is a leading dry-food contract packager in North America.
Lupulin Brewing
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Lupulin Brewing is a family-owned and family-run manufacturing company that produces craft beer products.
Miller Milling
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Miller Milling is a company that engaged in the milling of grains and flours to support millers with risk management and assessment
Global Agri-Development Company
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Global Agri-Development Company is an agricultural food business in Ghana.
Lettieri’s, LLC
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Lettieri’s, LLC is a producer of food products and offers breakfast sandwiches, calzones, stuffed baguettes, gourmet sandwiches.
QualiTru Sampling Systems
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QualiTru Sampling Systems provides aseptic sampling equipment that supports the liquid food industry to produce safe and quality products.
Rebel Brewer
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Rebel Brewer is a food and beverages company that provides overall quality of home brewed beverages all across the country.
Quality Pork Processors
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Quality Pork Processors is a food-based company that specializes in the processing and distribution of fresh pork meat.
Modist Brewing
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Modist is a taproom and production brewery that aims to change customer’s perception of craft beer beverages.
Schwartz Farms
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Schwartz Farms is a farming business that specializes in the processing and wholesale distribution of pork meat.
Autumnwood Farm
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Autumnwood Farm produces fresh milk and milk products.
Tater Kegs
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Tater Kegs is a food production company shredded potato stuffed with delicious flavors that fit every venue.
The Weetabix Company
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The Weetabix Company is a food and beverage company located in Lakeville.
Relco
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Relco provides dairy and food industries with capital equipments, processing systems and packaging solutions.
Farmers Union Industries
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Farmers Union Industries is a group of farmers that produce products like meat, pet & livestock feed, manure and fat products.
Syngenta – Dry Bean Business
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Syngenta Seeds, Inc. produces and markets corn, soybean, sorghum, and sunflower seeds.
Cargill-Alginate business
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Cargill-Alginate business producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services.
Inharvest
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Inharvest focuses on food production of multigrain blends, speciality rice, whole grains and pasta services.
Heartland Hybrids
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Heartland Hybrids is a privately held company and a direct marketer of seed corn.
Franklin Street Bakery
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Franklin Street Bakery providing premium breads, buns, & artisan products to the country’s top restaurants, hotels, retail, & food service.
Cargill Malt
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Cargill Malt serves the brewing, food, and beverage industries by originating and transforming malting barley into malt.