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Dongwon Home Food's "Vivid Kitchen Kimchi Salsa" announced on the 12th that it won the International Excellence Taste Award "2 Stars" at the "2026 International Food and Beverage Fair."
Vivid Kitchen Kimchi Salsa was highly evaluated in five categories: first impression, appearance, aroma, taste, and texture, especially in the texture category because it contains chopped kimchi and tomatoes. This award of Vivid Kitchen Kimchi Salsa is the first of its kind as a kimchi sauce.
Vivid Kitchen Kimchi Salsa, a Korean fusion sauce that combines kimchi's natural flavor and salsa, is loved by global consumers who prefer K-food. It can be used widely from dipping sauce for dipping nachos and taco to cooking sauces for various dishes such as pasta and lasagna. Vivid Kitchen Kimchi Salsa recently entered Sam's Club, a U.S. liquor distribution channel, and began selling at two Hawaii stores, and is expected to enter the U.S. in the future.
Meanwhile, Vivid Kitchen's low-calorie seasoned chicken sauce also won one star of the International Excellence Taste Award. It is the first Korean chicken sauce to win, and it is meaningful in that it was recognized for its taste only in blind tests despite being a low-calorie sauce. Based on Dongwon Home Food's know-how in developing B2B chicken sauce, Vivid Kitchen's low-calorie seasoned chicken sauce realized its own taste, and it was also ranked among the top sellers in the sauce category on Amazon in the U.S. e-commerce.
Vivid Kitchen is a low-calorie and low-calorie brand launched by Dongwon Home Food in 2020 and is loved not only at home but also abroad. Starting in 2024, it has been exporting various Korean food sauces such as kimchi salsa, kimchi chipotle mayo, red pepper paste, and bulgogi to various countries such as the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, and Vietnam.
"Vivid Kitchen's products, which have been introduced based on R&D capabilities accumulated over 30 years, have become recognized in global evaluation," a Dongwon Home Food official said. "We will continue to strengthen our global recognition as a leading K-source brand and play an active role on the global stage with various new products and active marketing activities."
The International Food and Beverage Fair (ITI) is a global food and beverage taste evaluation agency that has reviewed more than 16,000 food and beverage products in more than 130 countries since its establishment in 2005. Every year, ITI evaluates products through blind tests by more than 200 global taste experts, including sommelier associations and Michelin guide-turned-chefs, and gives "3 stars," "2 stars" and "1 stars" to products with high scores.
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