“Best New Vegetarian Product at Expo West 2006”:
VegNews, America’s premier vegetarian lifestyle magazine, announces Turtle Island Foods as the 2006 Veggie Award Winner for “Best New Vegetarian Product at Expo West 2006”. The award was given for Turtle Island’s new Tofurky Chipotle Frank, which was introduced at the show along with Tofurky Franks and Tofurky Breakfast Links. The Chipotle Frank was singled out of a crowd of over 300 new vegetarian entries that were introduced at Expo West.

This year’s Expo West show was a record breaker with over 43,000 visitors and 3,000 exhibitors from all over the world. It is the largest Natural Foods trade show in the United States and one of the largest trade shows anywhere.

“Turtle Island Foods is a leader in the natural food industry and continues to develop high-quality vegetarian products. We are pleased to honor your accomplishments with a Veggie Award,” said Publisher Joseph Connelly.

Best New Faux Meat Product: Turtle Island Foods today announced today that the companies new Cranberry and Stuffing, Italian and “Philly Style” Steak Slices have been named the “Best New Faux Meat Product ” for 2004. The award was presented to Turtle Island by PETA, People For Ethical Treatment of Animals after an exhaustive search of the hundreds new vegetarian food products introduced n 2004. The word “Proggy” is short for “Progress” and companies with high quality, innovative contributions were singled out.

In presenting the award, the committee said, “ Turtle Island has outdone itself, introducing an exciting line of new deli slice flavors. Our panelists went gaga over the "Philly Style" Steak slices, the Italian Deli slices, and the Cranberry & Stuffing slices—and immediately began conspiring to serve Tofurky sandwiches "undercover" to the meat-eaters in their households. Better than the ‘real thing’, Tofurky deli slices are without equal in delicious taste and texture”.

Turtle Island Foods is celebrating its 25th year in business in 2005.