Karma Sauce is burning up with excitement to announce that five of its handcrafted hot sauces have officially earned the Non-GMO Project butterfly, and the brand is bringing the whole verified, award-winning lineup to the 2026 Summer Fancy Food Show, June 28-30 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City (Booth #6154).
Bad Karma, Cherry Bomb, Cosmic Dumpling, Ghost Island, and breakout newcomer Mesa Roja are now Non-GMO Project Verified, North America's most trusted seal for shoppers who want to know there are no GMOs in the bottle. For a company that has obsessed over clean, honest ingredients since day one, the butterfly is less a new badge and more a long-overdue formality.
“We've fussed over every ingredient since before clean label was cool,” said Gene Olczak, founder and Lead Saucer at The Karma Sauce Company. “Earning the butterfly just puts in writing what our customers have tasted all along. And launching Mesa Roja verified? That's the cherry, or in this case the pineapple, on top.”
Speaking of Mesa Roja: this smoky tangle of chile peppers, pineapple, and honey did not exactly tiptoe onto the scene. After a limited debut in Texas, it hauled home five medals at the 2026 Fiery Food Challenge at ZestFest outside Dallas, including first-place finishes in both the Smoky and Latin condiment categories. Now it's going national, and it's the first Karma Sauce to hit shelves already wearing the butterfly.
Also stopping by Booth #6154: the Iron Smoke Old Fashioned, Karma's collaboration with Iron Smoke Distillery, the small-batch farm distillery just down the road in Fairport, NY. Inspired by the classic cocktail and crowned with a Golden Chile in the Medium category at the Fiery Food Challenge, it marries Karma's signature heat with Iron Smoke's smoky spirit. No bartender required.
Retailers, distributors, specialty food buyers, and card-carrying chile heads are all invited to swing by, meet the team, and taste why Karma keeps landing on the country's most talked-about shelves and menus. Bring an appetite. Maybe bring milk.
About Karma Sauce
Former NASA JWST engineer (and onetime Hamptons sous chef) Gene Olczak started Karma Sauce in his garage in 2010 and has grown the Rochester, NY-based company into a full-scale production and packaging powerhouse in the specialty sauce market. Karma Sauce is dedicated to crafting boldly flavorful, handmade sauces using the freshest ingredients, many grown to order on local Finger Lakes farms. Karma's award-winning sauces banish bland food and make good food great, and have been featured on the YouTube series Hot Ones six times under the Karma brand, with dozens of additional appearances through the Los Calientes line. Since its first competition awards in 2012, Karma Sauce has earned more than 200 honors at national fiery-food events. Learn more at karmasauce.com.
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