Innovation and stretching outside your comfort zone ap-pear to be the common threads among this year's R&D Teams of the Year. For Sargento Foods, after 60 years of working solely in cheese, it meant learning about fruits, nuts even chocolate to capture America's interest in proteins and snacking. Rice was the foundation of Lundberg Family Farms, but a 2013 growth initiative led to tortilla chips, chocolate-covered snacks and frozen rice & quinoa bowls.
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