Connecticut Health Food Companies

Tasty Bite
Ready-to-eat-vegetarian and vegan Indian and Thai entrees and ready to cook curry sauces and pastes. Entrees include Bengal Lentils, Bombay Potatoes, Jaipur Vegetables, Jodhpur Lentils, Kashmir Spinach, Punjab Eggplant. Curry Pastes include Chili Ginger, Cilantro Garlic, Tomato Coriander, Patong Yellow Curry and Bangkok Red Curry. Products are manufactured by Tasty Bites Eatables, Ltd, Bhandgaon, Pune, India
1445 East Putnam Avenue, Old Greenwich, CT 06870

Franklin Farms
Sells exotic varieties of fresh organic mushrooms. Select from maitake, shiitake, agaricus, portabella, crimini, oyster, enoki, and dried mushrooms. They also make vegetarian, All Natural Veggiburgers from their mushroom varieties. Site contains health information about mushrooms.
931 Route 32
North Franklin, Connecticut 06254

Gluten-Free Pantry, Inc.
Sells frozen gluten-free grain products such as sandwich bread, cinnamon raisin bread, hamburger and sandwich rolls, biscuits, cookies, cereals, waffle cones, wafers, crispbread, and pretzels. Also makes gluten-free baking mixes for breads, muffins, pancakes, and desserts. Ingredients are vegetarian.
182 Oakwood Drive
P.O. Box 840
Glastonbury, Connecticut 06033
Phone: 800-291-8386 (orders only)
Phone and FAX: 860-633-3826

Edible Arrangements, LLC
Please don't eat the daisies simply doesn't apply here. Edible Arrangements creates "flower" bouquets out of fruit by cutting shapes out of pineapples, adding melon balls, and surrounding the whole thing with strawberries, grapes, and apple wedges on skewers. The company also offers smoothies and fruit salads at some shops. Edible Arrangements has more than 630 franchised locations in the US and plans to go global. The company's software keeps its rapidly multiplying stores connected with headquarters and vice versa; the franchise system will soon be available to third parties. CEO Tariq Farid started Edible Arrangements in 1999 after doing software consulting for a similar business.
95 Barnes Road
Wallingford, CT 06492
Phone: 203-907-0066
Fax: 203-230-0792

Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc
Finicky dog? Short fuse? Ensign-Bickford Industries has a solution. The company, which manufactures cable filler and synthetic tapes, has five subsidiaries. The Ensign-Bickford Company makes non-electric explosive initiation systems, Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense makes high-tech products such as reactive armor and demolition products, and SCB Technologies makes semiconductor bridge devices used in electric igniters. Its more prosaic subsidiaries include AFB International, which makes taste enhancers for pet foods, and Ensign-Bickford Realty, a real estate company in Connecticut.
100 Grist Mill Rd.
Simsbury, CT 06070
Phone: 860-843-2000
Fax: 860-843-2600

Franklin Farms Inc.
Established in 1983, Franklin Farms has sprouted into a top grower and harvester of certified organic mushrooms in the US. The company's mushroom crop, grown completely without pesticides, includes agaricus (the popular white “button” mushroom), portabella, shiitake, crimini, oyster, enoki, beech, and maitake. It also produces meat-alternative vegetarian products, including Veggiburgers, Veggidogs, and Chick'n Nuggets. Franklin Farms was founded in 1983.
931 Rt. 32
North Franklin, CT 06254
Phone: 860-642-3000
Fax: 860-642-3044