TOP GOLD
OVERALL GOLD AWARDS
Top Healthy Gourmet Snacks for 2022
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 8th Annual Snack Awards selects and rewards the Top Healthy Gourmet Snack creations of the Year.
Products from across the country entered into this competition, and were sent to a select jury panel of food & wine media and industry judges located throughout North America. This panel tasted, reviewed and voted on which they consider to be the “Top Healthy Gourmet Snacks of the Year” by the TASTY AWARDS panel, the Academy of Media Tastemakers
The Healthy Snack Awards look for the tastiest, most appealing , and healthiest snack choices on the market. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bar, a chip, popcorn, or nuts, as long as it looks good and tastes good and is good for you then it has the chance of making the list. Gluten Free, Sugar Free, or just made with fresh and natural ingredients, the bottom line is that they have to satisfy your urge to munch.
The judges and reviewers for this year’s selections come from a panel of gurus from the Academy of Media Tastemakers. Here are their favorites
AWARD CATEGORY: BEST OVERALL SNACK EXPERIENCE
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
TOP SILVER
OVERALL SILVER AWARDS
- Effie’s Homemade Ginger Biscuits
- Hubbard Peanut Company Hubs Power Packs
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Wisecrackers Everything & More Snack Crackers
- Top Seedz Sea Salt Crackers
TOP SILVER
OVERALL SILVER AWARDS
- Effie’s Homemade Original Oatcakes – Single Serve
- Effie’s Homemade Cocoa Biscuits – Single Serve
- Popzup Popcorn Butter Me Up Popcorn
- Popzup Popcorn Cheddar Head Popcorn
- Top Seedz Maple Magic Roasted Seeds
HONORABLE MENTION
OVERALL HONORABLE MENTION AWARDS
- Hungry Bird Eats Rye + Everything Nordic Crisps
- Hungry Bird Eats Fennel + Onion Nordic Crisps
- Hungry Bird Eats Cardamom + Cinnamon Granola
- The Lentil House Sriracha & Sea Salt Gourmet Fried Lentils
- The Lentil House Smoked Paprika & Sea Salt Gourmet Fried Lentils
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Chocolate
- Rowdy LLC Keto Collagen + Prebiotic Bar: Chocolaty Cookie Dough
SELECTED JUDGES COMMENTS
Effie’s Oatcakes and Ginger Biscuits were my favorites. They perfectly paired with morning and afternoon tea!
Top Seedz Maple Magic Seeds. Yummy!
Hungry Bird Nordic Crisps crackers
All American Cornbread crackers
Hubbard Virginia Peanuts, Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers, Popzup Popcorn Butter Me Up
Cheddar Head Popcorn and Effie’s Ginger biscuits.
Effie’s ginger and cocoa, Mary’s chocolate and honey, Partners‘ everything, Top Seedz
Top Seedz Sea Salt
All of Mary’s “Kookies” were wonderfully crunchy. And her humorous names on her crackers and cookies are great.
The Crispy Cornbread Crackers were fabulous with every cheese I tried with them.
A sprinkling of Top Seedz Maple Magic over morning cereal (oatmeal or ordinary boxed cereal) added flavor and interesting crunch.
Love citrus flavors lemon, dried fruit flavor + nut crackers or biscuit texture snacks, nuts + seed combo crackers, vegan +
Gluten free
It’s exciting to see the innovation that goes into Hungry Bird Eats‘ products, and I love the crow logo — it’s beautifully drawn and really distinctive. I also like the generous size of the Popzup popcorn bags! And it’s great to see how Mary’s has branched out from crackers into these dense (in a good way) and intensely snackable cookies. Yum!
Was surprised in a good way at Rowdy Keto Collagen + Prebiotic Bar. I find most bars too dry and bland, but this one charmed me with soft, almost liquid chocolate chips inside. Well done!
STAR RATINGS: OVERALL
- Popzup Popcorn Cheddar Head Popcorn
- Top Seedz Sea Salt Crackers
- Top Seedz Maple Magic Roasted Seeds
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
- Popzup Popcorn Butter Me Up Popcorn
- Effie’s Homemade Original Oatcakes – Single Serve
- Effie’s Homemade Cocoa Biscuits – Single Serve
- Effie’s Homemade Ginger Biscuits
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Partners Stone Ground Wheat Hors d’Oeuvre Crackers
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Wisecrackers Everything & More Snack Crackers
- Hungry Bird Eats Rye + Everything Nordic Crisps
- The Lentil House Smoked Paprika & Sea Salt Gourmet Fried Lentils
- Hubbard Peanut Company Hubs Power Packs
- Hungry Bird Eats Cardamom + Cinnamon Granola
- Hungry Bird Eats Fennel + Onion Nordic Crisps
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Chocolate
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Cinnamon
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Honey
- Rowdy LLC Keto Collagen + Prebiotic Bar: Chocolaty Cookie Dough
- Cloud Chips Cloud Chips – Multigrain Flavor
AWARD CATEGORY: FLAVOR
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
- Popzup Popcorn Cheddar Head Popcorn
- Top Seedz Maple Magic Roasted Seeds
- Effie’s Homemade Ginger Biscuits
- Hubbard Peanut Company Hubs Power Packs
- Top Seedz Sea Salt Crackers
- Popzup Popcorn Butter Me Up Popcorn
- 88Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Wisecrackers Everything & More Snack Crackers
- Effie’s Homemade Original Oatcakes – Single Serve
- Effie’s Homemade Cocoa Biscuits – Single Serve
- Hungry Bird Eats Rye + Everything Nordic Crisps
- Hungry Bird Eats Cardamom + Cinnamon Granola
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Chocolate
AWARD CATEGORY: BEST TEXTURE
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
- Effie’s Homemade Ginger Biscuits
- Top Seedz Sea Salt Crackers
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Wisecrackers Everything & More Snack Crackers
- Effie’s Homemade Cocoa Biscuits – Single Serve
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Cinnamon
- Popzup Popcorn Cheddar Head Popcorn
- Top Seedz Maple Magic Roasted Seeds
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
- Effie’s Homemade Original Oatcakes – Single Serve
- Hungry Bird Eats Cardamom + Cinnamon Granola
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Chocolate
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Partners Stone Ground Wheat Hors d’Oeuvre Crackers
- Cloud Chips Cloud Chips – Multigrain Flavor
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Honey
- Popzup Popcorn Butter Me Up Popcorn
- Hungry Bird Eats Rye + Everything Nordic Crisps
- Hungry Bird Eats Fennel + Onion Nordic Crisps
- Rowdy LLC Keto Collagen + Prebiotic Bar: Chocolaty Cookie Dough
AWARD CATEGORY: BEST INGREDIENT COMBINATIONS
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
- Effie’s Homemade Ginger Biscuits
- Popzup Popcorn Cheddar Head Popcorn
- Top Seedz Maple Magic Roasted Seeds
- Top Seedz Sea Salt Crackers
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Wisecrackers Everything & More Snack Crackers
- Hungry Bird Eats Cardamom + Cinnamon Granola
- Rowdy LLC Keto Collagen + Prebiotic Bar: Chocolaty Cookie Dough
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
- Effie’s Homemade Original Oatcakes – Single Serve
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Partners Stone Ground Wheat Hors d’Oeuvre Crackers
- Popzup Popcorn Butter Me Up Popcorn
HONORABLE MENTION
- Effie’s Homemade Cocoa Biscuits – Single Serve
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Chocolate
- Hungry Bird Eats Rye + Everything Nordic Crisps
- Hungry Bird Eats Fennel + Onion Nordic Crisps
- The Lentil House Smoked Paprika & Sea Salt Gourmet Fried Lentils
- The Lentil House Turmeric & Sea Salt Gourmet Fried Lentils
AWARD CATEGORY: MOST UNIQUE
- Top Seedz Maple Magic Roasted Seeds
- Hungry Bird Eats Cardamom + Cinnamon Granola
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
- Top Seedz Sea Salt Crackers
- Rowdy LLC Keto Collagen + Prebiotic Bar: Chocolaty Cookie Dough
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
HONORABLE MENTION
- Hungry Bird Eats Fennel + Onion Nordic Crisps
- Cloud Chips Cloud Chips – Multigrain Flavor
AWARD CATEGORY: BEST PACKAGING
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
- Top Seedz Sea Salt Crackers
- Top Seedz Maple Magic Roasted Seeds
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
- Hungry Bird Eats Rye + Everything Nordic Crisps
- Cloud Chips Cloud Chips – Multigrain Flavor
- Effie’s Homemade Ginger Biscuits
- Effie’s Homemade Original Oatcakes – Single Serve
- Effie’s Homemade Cocoa Biscuits – Single Serve
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Partners Stone Ground Wheat Hors d’Oeuvre Crackers
- Popzup Popcorn Butter Me Up Popcorn
AWARD CATEGORY: BEST SNACK WHILE WORKING
- Effie’s Homemade Cocoa Biscuits – Single Serve
- Rowdy LLC Keto Collagen + Prebiotic Bar: Chocolaty Cookie Dough
- Effie’s Homemade Original Oatcakes – Single Serve
- Hubbard Peanut Company Hubs Power Packs
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
HONORABLE MENTION
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Cinnamon
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Wisecrackers Everything & More Snack Crackers
AWARD CATEGORY: BEST SNACK WHILE RELAXING
- Popzup Popcorn Cheddar Head Popcorn
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
- Effie’s Homemade Ginger Biscuits
- Popzup Popcorn Butter Me Up Popcorn
- Effie’s Homemade Cocoa Biscuits – Single Serve
- Hubbard Peanut Company Hubs Power Packs
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Wisecrackers Everything & More Snack Crackers
- Hungry Bird Eats Rye + Everything Nordic Crisps
- Hungry Bird Eats Cardamom + Cinnamon Granola
- Top Seedz Maple Magic Roasted Seeds
- Mary’s Gone Kookies Chocolate
HONORABLE MENTION
- Effie’s Homemade Original Oatcakes – Single Serve
- Top Seedz Sea Salt Crackers
- Hungry Bird Eats Fennel + Onion Nordic Crisps
AWARD CATEGORY: BEST SNACK FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY
- Popzup Popcorn Cheddar Head Popcorn
- Popzup Popcorn Butter Me Up Popcorn
- Top Seedz 6 Seed Crackers
- Hubbard Peanut Company Hubs Power Packs
- Top Seedz Maple Magic Roasted Seeds
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company All-American Crispy Cornbread Snack Crackers
- Effie’s Homemade Ginger Biscuits
- Effie’s Homemade Cocoa Biscuits – Single Serve
- Partners, A Tasteful Choice Company Wisecrackers Everything & More Snack Crackers
- Hungry Bird Eats Rye + Everything Nordic Crisps
HONORABLE MENTION
- Hungry Bird Eats Cardamom + Cinnamon Granola
- Effie’s Homemade Original Oatcakes – Single Serve
- Top Seedz Sea Salt Crackers
- Cloud Chips Cloud Chips – Multigrain Flavor
