25 Successful Women-Owned Food Companies to Add to Your Grocery List

Inspired by the owner and namesake’s South Indian roots, this gourmet food company offers convenient simmer sauces, dals, channas, and condiments made from time-honored family recipes.

Since 1981, this family-owned company has been making high quality crème fraîche that is free of additives or stabilizers, and is heat and acid stable – meaning it will not break when boiled or blended into sauces.

With a line of Sichuan pantry staples inspired by the flavors of the proprietor’s hometown, Chengdu, Fly by Jing is perhaps most famous for its Sichuan chili crisp, a spicy condiment that goes well on nearly anything savory.

What started as an ice cream stall at a Columbus, Ohio, food hall and market has become an artisan scoop shop that spans 14 states. Jeni’s pints are available at fine grocery stores nationwide, and feature flavors like powdered jelly donut and brown butter almond brittle.

Fusion’s founder KaiYen Mai emerged from her family’s long-running jerky business to market her own updated version that combines globally-inspired seasonings with quality meat and poultry to create a tender snack that is bursting with flavor.

After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Olreans, Kristin Preau traveled cross-country peddling jambalaya and raised over $100,000 for her hometown’s recovery. Now, her family’s recipes are used in Jambalaya Girl’s variety of rice blends, seasonings, and gumbo base.

Originally a boutique bakery under the umbrella of David Chang’s Momofuku restaurants, Milk Bar is now a chain of dessert restaurants headed by chef and sugar addict Christina Tosi. A line of Milk Bar’s cookies and ice creams are available at supermarkets nationwide.

Three sisters transformed their family dairy farm into the Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company, producing California’s only classic-style blue cheese, as well as semi-hard table cheeses, cheddar, aged gouda, and soft-ripened cheeses.

Lamenting the absence of high quality tahini on U.S. shelves, the three Zitelman sisters created Soom (Hebrew for sesame seed), which offers tahini that rivals the brands found in Israel, as well as date syrups and sesame-based snacks.

Maine’s first bean-to-bar chocolate company sources cacao directly from farmers in Central America and the Caribbean, to create an array of chocolates, bonbons, and confections that can be shipped nationwide.

When her family’s seventh-generation Michigan grain farm began growing the ancient grain teff, a staple of Ethiopian cuisine, Claire Smith tried adding the grain to her granola – and Teffola was born. The nutty multi-grain granola is available in retail stores in the Midwest.

Founded by two college roommates, this company sources U.S. grown peanuts and almonds for their line of creamy nut butters and sweet nutty spreads.

From humble roots in Boston farmers markets to supermarkets nationwide, this lactose-free ice cream company has succeeded in providing a gourmet pint that is just as rich, creamy, and decadent as lactose-full ice cream.

After kicking cancer in her 20s, Loren Brill set out to create a company that offers plant-based, all-natural treats. Sweet Loren’s convenient cookie dough is gluten-free, dairy-free, and non-GMO.

A fourth-generation butcher from Boston, Cara Nicoletti has made it her mission to encourage people to eat more sustainably by packing as many vegetables as possible into Seemore’s humanely raised chicken and pork sausages.

From the founder of Chicago’s Vosges Haut-Chocolat, Wild Ophelia is a Fair Trade chocolate company with a mission of empowering young women entrepreneurs through its accelerator grant program.

After growing up devouring their mother’s “magic green sauce” on every dish, these three sisters teamed up with their mom to bring their family’s cilantro ginger chutney, in three variations, to the masses.

Founded by a first-generation American whose parents owned a small comfort food carry-out restaurant, Mason Dixie sells preservative-free frozen scones and biscuits that can be heated and served hot for that home-baked taste.

Based in Hawaii, this chocolate company makes premium bars with Hawaiian-inspired flavors like coffee and sugarcane, pineapple and toasted coconut, and dragonfruit with black lava sea salt.

Judy Schad began raising milking goats and making cheese in the late ’70s on a historic Indiana farm. Now her company, Capriole, carries a line of delectable goat cheeses that includes fresh chevre, soft ripened, and bloomy-rind semi-hard cheeses.

After being fired from a media job, Melissa Ben-Ishay followed her real passion and started a mini cupcake company with a tie-dye logo that would become a ubiquitous part of the Manhattan landscape.

This Michigan-based company offers a line of home-style canned goods that includes award-winning bread-and-butter pickles, savory herbed cherry tomatoes, and spicy pickled asparagus.

Owned by a mother and daughter duo, this gift company provides thoughtfully crafted tins of chocolates, seasoned nuts, and other snacks for any occasion, as well special seasonal and holiday offerings.

Inspired by her father’s secret sauce recipe, Jennifer Reynolds started Sauce Goddess Gourmet to share her love of sauces and spice blends that are additive-free and made from fresh vegan ingredients.

Using olives and fruits from family-owned California farms, Brightland delivers the highest quality unadulterated oils and vinegars to promote clean, healthy diets and a connection to the land.