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H-E-B Grocery Co. has chosen 25 finalists in its fifth annual Quest for Texas Best competition after evaluating products by more than 700 entrepreneurs from nearly 140 cities across the state.

For Afia Foods founder Farrah Moussallati Sibai, spending time in the kitchen has always been intimately tied to a sense of home and her Syrian heritage. Her local food business, named for an Arabic word meaning "bon appétit" or "to your health," supports refugees through economic empowerment, community-building, and shared meals.

The new class of the yogurt company’s incubator, which includes Afia Foods, shows how it’s helping the kind of founders that often have a hard time securing funding.

At 33, Farrah Moussallati Sibai has survived violence in her home and her family’s home country, but she found new love and life in Austin, where she is the owner of Afia Foods, a frozen food company that employs Syrian refugees and whose product recently hit the freezer section of about 200 H-E-B stores throughout Texas.