We believe in elevating your palate’s consciousness. . .

Or helping you eat well, whichever comes first. Back in 2013 we started experimenting in our parents’ kitchens. We had a simple goal of just making beef jerky. Now, almost 10 years later, ask us how many times we have actually made beef jerky… Not once! A few failed attempts, resulting in different meat snacks and some wild dreaming, eventually turning dreams into action, here we are in 2022.

Collectively, we’ve always been experimenting. Did those new flavors always work out? Ask our siblings, the answer is no. The number of times one of us has said “come taste this, it’s disgusting” is too many to count. However, you can’t hone your craft without making a few mistakes along the way.

Speed up to 2019. We try to take action and start to put thought into vertical integration of meat snacks, this was probably a few steps too far ahead of where we actually were. We produced something that was good but nothing close in texture, mouthfeel, or flavor, to what was actually wanted and had been made previously. A brainstorm here, a tweak there, no real progress. Then boom! A pandemic.

Everyone is now working from home, Ari and David have a smidge of extra time in their day, and begin to look more seriously at next steps. We start looking into what it takes to start a food business, and we discover the cottage food laws. However, this doesn’t apply to meat snacks. Recognizing our flavors were unique, we decided to go a different route. Introduce our flavors to the world by spice blends and powders, slowly build the business up to afford the commercial kitchen, and the USDA certifications and get to a point where we can make all our crazy ideas a reality. Maybe make some friends and partners along the way that have a similar philosophy and just bring smiles to the world.

Chosen Foods constantly continues the search across the globe for the highest quality and freshest ingredients, to make sure the products we sell is as pure as can be in taste and experience. We’ve rejected partnerships already and opted to find ways to make products ourselves because even the “freshest” according to market and industry standard wasn’t “fresh” enough to our standards.

We at Chosen Foods hope that you will see all of this in our unique and ever evolving offering. Don’t consider us a service or product provider, consider us a community.

We want you to love every bite and love spending time in the kitchen. We want you to explore, have fun, and only use the best selection of chosen foods.

Let your flavors run wild.