Innovation in the category is focusing on health, occasions and functional ingredients.

The Specialty Food Association’s sofi Awards, which celebrate innovation and great taste, honored a number of dairy companies and their products in 2022.

The winners were selected through a blind tasting process managed by Rutgers Food Innovation Center.

A look at some of the new ice creams, cheeses, butters, desserts, snacks and other dairy and dairy alternative products that were introduced and announced during the first couple of months of 2022.