by the numbers
This first Specialty Food issue of 2021 recognizes the
winners of the SFA's ninth annual Leadership Awards and
analyzes how the events of 2020 helped shape the future
of food. Here are some facts and figures from this issue.
The percent of shoppers who
buy plant-based alternatives
for health reasons. A renewed
focus on health and wellness
amid the pandemic drove many
consumers to try new products.
Channy Laux, founder of
Angkor Cambodian Food,
arrives in Lincoln, Nebraska,
as a refugee, not knowing
a word of English. Laux is
one of the 2021 Leadership
Award recipients, recognized
in the category of citizenship.
The brick-and-mortar retail sales of specialty fruit
spreads, jams, and jellies prior to COVID-19, from
2017-2019, according to the SFA's State of the
Specialty Food Industry research, 2020-2021
Edition. Since then, the category's sales
have been driven by at-home cooking
and eating due to the pandemic.
70%
1979
3
,
000
$
270
million
80
,
000
1979
3
,
000
The number of pounds of carbon from
the water that Atlantic Sea Farms
removed in 2020 through its kelp
farming. Briana Warner of Atlantic Sea
Farms is one of the 2021 Leadership
Award recipients, recognized in the
category of business leadership.
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BEYOND MEAT
PHOTO¨ ANGKOR
CAMBODIAN FOOD
The number of years sesame
seed-based Middle Eastern
confection halva has been
around for. Ruth Reichl
claims halva is a good-for-
you candy, thanks to its
abundance of iron.
WINTER
