GoodSAM Foods is a small business and B Corp helping upend the traditional food industry in the best way possible. GoodSAM produces a healthy food brand with a commitment to sustainability and regenerative agriculture. The snack leader’s product portfolio has consistently expanded and it recently announced the launch of the 2024 Nexty-award winning Pineapple Slice Chips. Continuing to revolutionize the snack category GoodSAM – previously and long known for nuts, coffees, and chocolates – the Pineapple Slice Chips are the first in a new line of fruit chips for the company. A women-led innovation with a sweet crunch, these new, regeneratively grown Pineapple Slice Chips retail for $4.99 and will be available soon at Thrive Market. These superfoods‘ natural sugars and flavor shine when they are slowly baked into chips. No oils, added sugars, artificial flavors, or preservatives added. It’s another sweet notch in GoodSAM’s belt of regenerative agriculture focused innovation that focuses more on positive farmer relationships and healing the planet than the lowest price point.
Commitment to regenerative agriculture
GoodSam supports biodiversity: “We purchase as many commercially viable products as we can from each farm that we work with. This helps to pro-vide a year-round stream of income for farmers. We do not believe a regenerative agriculture is a one size fits all solution. We are working on our own regenerative agriculture standards, according to the necessities of each ecosystem and each community we‘re working with,“ says Heather K. Terry, Founder and CEO.
Regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming that in-corporates all of the cycles of nature to improve soil health while also producing high quality food and fiber. This method of agriculture provides ecosystem benefits through circular far ming practices that implement diver-se crop rotation, incorporate animal integration, limit soil disturbance and build upon agroforestry systems.
Conventional agriculture is a prescriptive approach to farming with the goal to maximize crop or livestock yield. This method of agriculture typically re-lies on chemical inputs like genetically modified seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and chemical pesticides to increase farm production. This style of farming typically sacrifices soil health and can lead to negative short term and long term ecosystem outcomes.
The latest Nexty win marks the company’s third win in five years and Heather Terry has become a sought after leader in the food space and is a go-to resource on topics regarding transparent supply chain, sustainability in food systems, and regenerative agriculture. Heather is a sought after speaker with many ideas for a company which is constantly innovating pro-ducts that are good for both people and the planet.
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