Will lightning strike twice for last year’s winners of the Seafood Excellence Awards presented during the Seafood Expo & Seafood Processing North America event in Boston, Massachusetts? Both Alaskan Jack’s Seafood Corporation and High Liner Foods
are in the running once again, and the winners will be announced during a special awards ceremony on March 6, at 3:30 PM, in the Demonstration Theatre of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Frozen entries will figure prominently among a dozen contenders for two top prizes. The 12 products making the final round of judging were narrowed down from almost 60 entries. Each was carefully reviewed by three experts from the seafood sector who
evaluated taste, uniqueness and appropriateness to the market, originality, packaging, potential for consumer acceptance, convenience and nutritional value.
Will Alaskan Jack’s Seafood Corporation score a repeat victory in Boston on March 6? Its recently launched Frontier Harvest Alaskan Jack’s Gold Premium Pineapple-Teriyaki Sockeye is vying for a Seafood Excellence Award. Check the new product out at Booth #2305Alaskan
Jack’s Seafood Corporation, last year’s champion in the Retail New Products category with award-winning Alaskan Jack’s Wild-caught Salmon Fillets, is defending its title in the 2016 competition with recently introduced Frontier Harvest Alaskan Jack’s
Gold Premium Pineapple-Teriyaki Sockeye.
Innovative products from seven other companies are vying for first place in the retail contest, namely: Phillips Foods’ Shrimp Toast; Premier Marine Canada’s Waterview Market Shrimp with Sauce; Aqua Star’s Crab & Shrimp Seafood Feast; Bantry Bay
America Inc.’s Mussels in a Creamy Stout Sauce; Absolutely Lobster’s Absolutely Lobster Homemade Tomato Sauces; Santa Barbara Smokehouse’s Honey Glazed Oak Roasted Salmon; and French Creek Seafoods’ Kickin’ Seafood Chili.
Ready to grill or bake, Aqua Star’s Crab & Shrimp Seafood Feast is in the Seafood Excellence Award running. This and many other products from the company will be on display at Booth #2005.
High Liner Foods’ Simply Sauce Seafood Bites are especially positioned to satisfy the desire of school foodservice director to offer students healthy choices and meet demand for tasty, fun lunch options. They can be sampled at Booth 1005 during the Boston show.In
the Best Foodservice New Product category, High Liner Foods’ Simply Sauce Seafood Bites will try to do for the Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada-headquartered company what its Pulled BBQ Salmon did last year when it took the top prize. Packed at the company’s
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA processing plant, the bite-size portions in the running this time around feature whole-grain, crunchy, breaded seafood in three varieties: salmon, pollock and shrimp. They are packaged with Sweet Asian Sauce, a combination
of soy, chili pepper, garlic and spices.
High Liner will be against Trident Seafoods’ SeaFusions Pacific Cod Bites, Vinh Hoan Corporation’s Char Marked Barramundi, and Azuma Foods Internationals Inc.’s Tobikko Umami.
All products in the competition entered the North American marketplace during the past 18 months.
Vin Hoan Corporation’s Char Marked Barramundi is competing for the top prize in the Best Foodservice New Product category.
