Ballreich’s Awarded for Best Potato Chip and Potato Stick

Category Champions and Gold Medal Winners

 Gold Medals were awarded for the three highest scores - listed below - in each category based on judging results from Friday.

All Gold Medal winning chips were tasted on Saturday and a Champion awarded for the highest score in each category. PotatoPro has identified the Category Champions in Italics

Best Plain Chip:
 

• Saratoga Chips, LLC. – Original with Himalayan Salt
• Frito – Lay – Lay’s Classic
• Ballreich Bros. – Marcelled Potato Chips

Best Kettle Chip:
 

• The Great Lakes Potato Chip Co. – Original Flavor Kettle Chip
• Utz Quality Foods – Good Health Avocado Oil Sea Salt
• Herr Foods – Herr’s Regular Kettle

Best Potato Stick:
 

• Utz Quality Foods – Utz Potato Stix
• Ballreich Bros. – Smokey Sweet Mesquite Potato Stick
• Better Made Snack Foods – Better Made Special Potato Sticks

Best Tortilla Chip:
 

• Utz Quality Foods – Utz Tortilla’s Restaurant Style
• The Great Lakes Potato Chip Co. – Tortilla Chips
• Frito – Lay – Tostitos Scoops

Best Corn Based Chip (non-tortilla):
 

• Wise Foods – Original Dipsy Doodle
• Frito – Lay – Doritos Nacho Cheese
• Wise Foods – Crunchy Cheese Doodle

Best Vegetable Chip (non potato or corn):
 

• North Fork Potato Chip Co. – Sweet Potato Chip
• Popcorners – Our Little Rebellion Bean Crisps Saucy Salsa
• Herr Foods – Good Natured Selects Baked Vegetable Crisps

Best BBQ Flavored Chip:
 

• Wise Foods – Wise Honey BBQ
• Wise Foods – Wise Kettle Cooked BBQ
• Frito – Lay – Lay’s Honey BBQ

Best Cream and/or Dairy Flavored Chip:
 

• Utz Quality Foods – Utz Sour Cream and Onion
• Bickel’s Snack Foods – Troyer Farms Sour Cream and Onion
• Herr Foods – Herr’s Sour Cream and Onion

Best Spice and/or Salt Flavored Chip:
 

• Better Made Snack Foods – Salt and Vinegar Potato Chip
• Frito – Lay – Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili
• Wise Foods – Wise Kettle Cracked Pepper

Best “Anything Goes” Chip:
 

• Frito – Lay – Ruffles All Dressed
• Jones Potato Chip Co. – Wavy Dill Potato Chips
• Saratoga Chips, LLC. – Old Glories Red, White, and Blue

Source: The Chip Festival Chip Contest