--- title: Here Are the Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink description: Meet the women transforming the food industry by curbing food waste and improving organic eggs in Food and Wine and Fortune magazine's list canonical: https://time.com/4489266/food-drink-women-innovators/ author: Mandy Oaklander article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T13:01:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:31.530Z article:section: Health og:title: Here Are the Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink og:description: Meet the women transforming the food industry by curbing food waste and improving organic eggs in Food and Wine and Fortune magazine's list og:url: https://time.com/4489266/food-drink-women-innovators/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here Are the Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink twitter:description: Meet the women transforming the food industry by curbing food waste and improving organic eggs in Food and Wine and Fortune magazine's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The 5 Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink > Sponsored content. 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The editors of _Food & Wine_ and _Fortune_ magazines teamed up to spotlight women entrepreneurs, activists and leaders in the food world who’ve worked in the past year to transform the way people dine. Twenty earned a spot on their Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink 2016 list. Here are five standouts from the report by [_Food & Wine_](http://www.foodandwine.com/innovative-women)and [_Fortune_](http://fortune.com/2016/09/14/innovative-women-food-drink/)(which, like TIME, are owned by Time Inc.). ### Emily Broad Leib  Courtesy of Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation At the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, Leib is tackling the enormous problem of wasted food, which crowds landfills and leaves many hungry, by trying to change legislation around the way food is labeled. “We want to make labeling laws clearer, so when people pick up a yogurt, they know when it’s OK to eat it and when to throw it out,” she tells _Food & Wine_ and _Fortine_. It may also make perfectly fine food easier to donate. ### Betsy Babcock  Conor Harrigan Photography From a quaint seven-chicken experiment at a B&B grew an empire of eggs. On the pasture of Handsome Brook Farm, Babcock raises chickens with organic feed and helps other small farms do the same. ### The 5 Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink  Fenugreen FreshPaper The future of food is here, and it’s decidedly female. The editors of _Food & Wine_ and _Fortune_ magazines teamed up to spotlight women entrepreneurs, activists and leaders in the food world who’ve worked in the past year to transform the way people dine. Twenty earned a spot on their Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink 2016 list. Here are five standouts from the report by [_Food & Wine_](http://www.foodandwine.com/innovative-women)and [_Fortune_](http://fortune.com/2016/09/14/innovative-women-food-drink/)(which, like TIME, are owned by Time Inc.). ### Monica Garnes  Courtesy of Kroger Garnes heads up produce for Kroger, and under her leadership, the grocery chain bought from 27% more local farmers in the past five years. “Now we can tell our customers exactly who raises their vegetables, which is pretty darn exciting,” she tells _Food & Wine_ and _Fortune_. ### Kavita Shukla  Fenugreen FreshPaper Shukla helps fight food spoilage with her invention of FreshPaper, naturally antibacterial sheets infused with herbs to help produce last four times longer. ### Mackenzie Barth & Sarah Adler  The two college pals founded [Spoon University](https://spoonuniversity.com/), a recipe website and digital media training program for young people who want to make good food—and good content around it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4489266/food-drink-women-innovators/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4489266/food-drink-women-innovators/"},"headline":"The 5 Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink","datePublished":"2016-09-14T13:01:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:31.530Z","description":"From the editors of Food & Wine and Fortune magazines","url":"https://time.com/4489266/food-drink-women-innovators/","keywords":["food and drink","Food","wine","Drink","Fortune","eggs"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mandy Oaklander","jobTitle":"Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mandy-oaklander/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/food-and-drink/","name":"food and drink"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4489266/food-drink-women-innovators/","name":"The 5 Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink"}}]}] ```