Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Cibo Vita Inc. is a private company, founded in 2009, that manufactures and sells health-conscious snack foods. Headquartered in Totowa, New Jersey, the company was co-founded by Emre Imamoglu and Ahmet Celik. In October 2023, private equity firm Citation Capital acquired a majority interest in the company, with the founders retaining a significant ownership stake. Recent legal filings refer to the company as New Cibo Vita LLC. Cibo Vita employs over 900 people in its New Jersey facilities.
The company's primary business is producing and marketing snack foods under its flagship brand, Nature's Garden, as well as providing private-label products for supermarkets. Its product lines include a wide variety of natural and organic trail mixes, dried fruits, nuts, pretzels, and confectionery items like chocolate and yogurt-coated snacks. Cibo Vita markets its products as "better-for-you" snacks and has developed specific functional food lines, such as its Probiotic Yoggies and FruiChias fruit snacks. The company operates SQF Level II and USDA Organic-certified manufacturing facilities.
Based on its litigation history, Cibo Vita is an operating company that defends itself in legal disputes rather than one that initiates patent assertion campaigns. The company has been named as a defendant in one tracked case at the International Trade Commission and has not been a plaintiff.
The company's one tracked patent case is a 2026 complaint filed by competitor Promotion In Motion Inc. at the International Trade Commission. Beyond this, Cibo Vita has been involved in other legal disputes, including several consumer class-action lawsuits filed in 2025 alleging false advertising and misleading labeling for its Nature's Garden Yoggies products.
The accused products are fruit snacks containing probiotics, as well as the method used to manufacture them.