FreeFrom Food Awards 2010, The Shortlist…
From sheep’s milk ice cream, gluten-free syrup sponge and free-from fusilli with amaranth to gluten-free fish fingers washed down with a gluten-free glass of beer, nearly 200 freefrom products have made it onto a very long ‘shortlist’ for the FreeFrom Food Awards 2010 – some indication of the spectacular growth seen in this sector of the food industry in recent years.
The freefrom food market has positively exploded over the last few years with predicted sales in the UK reaching £360 million by 2012 (Mintel), and $2.6 billion worldwide (Packaged Facts).
The FreeFrom Food Awards are the only industry awards that celebrate excellence in this field. Now in their third extremely successful year, the 2010 awards have attracted over 1,000 freefrom entries from every type of supplier from one man/woman bakers to multinational food manufacturers.
The awards were started by www.foodsmatter.com, a massive website and information source which logs over half a million hits on its 3,000 plus pages every month and includes the only dedicated site covering all aspects of freefrom food.
Says Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, editor of www.foodsmatter.com:
“The response to the launch of the awards has just been fantastic and mirrors the expansion in the whole market. Whereas in year one (2008) we had maybe 30 entries for the bread or the cake section, in year two (2009) we had 60 – this year (2010) we have had over 100!
“We are particularly excited about this year’s shortlist as it includes such an excellent spread of products really illustrating how the freefrom market has grown and how suppliers and manufacturers are rising to the challenge to cover all areas of 'freefrom need’.
“Important though a tasty cake is to those with allergies, cakes and biscuits alone do not really make up balanced diet, so it great that the freefrom offer now also includes ready meals, soups, ready-to-cook pastry, freefrom ingredients – and even gluten-free beer!”
A prestigious panel
The final judging to choose the winners of the 2010 awards will take place at the end of March. Judges will include Simon Wright, chair of judges for the Q Awards, the Food and Drink Innovation Network ‘s Jeffrey Hyman, Jane Suthering, president of the Guild of Food Writers, Not Just Food ‘s Jane Milton of and Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, editor of foodsmatter.com
There will be a winner for each category, including the Innovation Award for the most interesting new product this year, plus both Highly Commended and Commended certificates for the runners up. The overall winner will receive the FAIR (Foundation for Allergy Information and Research) trophy for the Best FreeFrom Food 2010. The awards will be presented by Antony Worrall Thompson on April 21st at the Canal Museum behind King’s Cross.
FreeFrom Food Awards 2010 Shortlist / 2
If the last two years’ events are anything to go by, the evening, which is by invitation only, will be a great freefrom networking event packed with ‘freefrom-ers’, both large and small, exchanging news and ideas over glasses of pink champagne on the Canal Museum’s canal-side terrace…
For the full list see below or go to http://www.freefromfoodawards.co.uk/shortlist_10.html
Main sponsors for the 2010 FreeFrom Food awards are Tesco. (http://www.tesco.com/health/food/healthy_eating/tesco_food/freefrom.page)
The Innovation Award is sponsored by Livwell (http://www.livwell.eu/)
Category sponsors include:
Delamere Dairy – Plant milks, spreads, yogurts & cheeses (http://www.delameredairy.co.uk/)
Genon Laboratories – Gluten-free breads and bread mixes (http://www.genonlabs.co.uk/)
Dietary Specials – Gluten-free pasta (http://www.nutritionpoint.co.uk/)
Mrs Crimbles – Gluten-free sweet biscuits and cookies (http://www.mrscrimbles.com/)
Pure Spreads – Gluten/dairy-free cakes, muffins, brownies and mixes (http://www.puredairyfree.co.uk/)
Swedish Glacé – Gluten-free puddings, sweet pies and desserts (http://www.fayrefield.com/gallerySwedish.htm)
For more on freefrom food in general go to http://www.foodsmatter.com/freefrom_foods/index.html
For more on allergy and intolerance go to http://www.foodsmatter.com/index.html
Innovation Award -
sponsored by Livwell
Against the Grain chocolate cookies
AWT stock cubes
Asda gluten-free fusilli
Cake angels cup cakes
Dietary Specials frozen sausage rolls
Gluten Free Kitchen brown rolls
GFK vegan carrot cake
Hares’ Moor curry kits
Hale and heart gluten-free bread mix
Hale and heart gluten-free falafel mix
Hale and heart gluten-free pasta
Isabel’s cheese bread mix
Livwell English muffins
Love more gluten-free pastry
Peace of cake – cake selection
Sainsbury’s Bombay potatoes
Sainsbury’s caramelised onion rolls
Sainsbury’s chilli con carne
Sainsbury’s gingerbread slices
Sainsbury’s Korma sauce
Sweet Freedom
1.Animal (not cow)'s milk,
butter, yogurt and ice cream
Delamere Dairy whole goat milk
Lactofree low lactose cow’s milk
Laverstoke Park Buffalo milk
St Helen’s Farm whole goat milk
St Helen’s goat butter
Styles strawberry sheep dessert
Styles vanilla bean sheeps dessert
Tesco whole goat milk
2. Plant 'milk', spread, yogurt,
cheese and ice cream –
sponsored by Delamere Dairy
B’Nice rice cream – strawberry
Biona Organic Olive spread
BoojaBooja Stuff in a tub – chocolate
BoojaBooja Stuff in a tub – vanilla
BoojaBooja Stuff... – maple pecan
Cheezly Greek style
Oatly Oat cream
Pure Soya spread
Sainsbury’s organic olive spread
Sojasun raspberry soya yogurt
Swedish Glacé Neopolitan
Tofutti Creamy smooth original
Tofutti Mozzarella style
Tofutti frozen dessert – chocolate
Worthenshaw’s coconice strawberry
Barkat gluten-free waffle cones
3. Breads and mixes –
sponsored by Genon Laboratories
Beiker sandwich bread mix
Genius white bread
Glebe Farm brown bread mix
Dietary Specials (DS) fresh multi-seeded
Gluten Free Kitchen seeded loaf
Juvela fresh brown bread
Livwell tear drop flat breads
Mrs Crimbles fresh white bread
Proceli brown seeded rolls
Tesco pitta bread
4. Pasta –
sponsored by Dietary Specials
Dietary Specials penne
Doves Farm brown rice spaghetti
Farabella cannelloni
Gluten Out tortellini
Juvela spaghetti
Juvela tagliatelli
Orgran multigrain fusilli
Rizopia organic brown rice fusilli
Rizopia organic brown rice spaghetti
Tesco fusilli
Tesco spaghetti
5. Pizza bases and pastry
GFree rich shortcrust pastry
Glutafin white mix – pastry
Gluten Free Kitchen shortcrust
Juvela pizza base
Juvela white mix – pastry
Store cupboard pizza base
Tarte Maison pastry cases
Wellfoods pizza base
6. Savoury pies, flans and
ready meals
Brumby’s chicken and mushroom pie
Clive’s Pies – Aloo gobi
Clive’s Pies – Lentil and olive
DS tagliatelle with bacon/mushrooms
DS thin and crispy pepperoni pizza
DS deep pan mozzarella and tomato
Intolerable Food Co Thai veg curry
It’s a FreeWorld Thai chicken curry
Sainsbury’s Chicken Kiev
Sainsbury’s beef lasagne
Young’s Gluten free fish fingers
7. Savoury biscuits/snacks
Barkat pretzels
Eskal pretzels
Glutafin crackers
Les Pain des Fleurs chestnut toast
Mrs Crimbles cheese crackers
Nairns oatcakes
Nairns mini rough oatcakes
Paterson’s oatcakes
Trufree pretzels
Village Bakery oatcakes
Village Bakery seedy oatcakes
8. Scones, sweet tarts,
Bakewells, cake bars
Asda Fruit teacakes
Asda Chocolate Brownies
Christine’s puddings Scones
Gluten Free Kitchen Fruit scones
Honeybuns Heathcliff brownie
Honeyrose oat bar flapjack
Honeyrose pecan maple flapjack
It’s Nut Free chocolate chip flapjack
It’s Nut Free refrigerator cake
Livwell sultana scones
Lovemore chocolate brownies
Mrs Crimble’s Bakewell slices
Orgran raspberry filled biscuits
Tarte Maison Bakewell Tart
Village Bakery chocolate brownies
Waitrose Almond tart
9. Sweet biscuits –
sponsored by Mrs Crimble’s
Asda milk chocolate wafers
Baker’s Delight FreeTime
Eskal vanilla tea biscuits
Glutafin gran biscotti
Glutafin shortbread
Glutafin custard creams
Honeybuns honeyed apple cookies
Lazy Day Foods chocolate gingers
Lovemore chocolate chip cookies
Orgran dinosaur fruit cookies
Morrisons caramel shortbread
Mrs Crimbles’ choc macaroons
Prewetts Ginger cookies
Prewett’s Jammy wheels
Prewett’s sultana and apple cookies
Trubitz Raison cookies
Trufree Chocolate chip cookies
Waitrose cranberry cookies
10. Cakes and mixes –
sponsored by PURE
Asda almond slices
Beiker cup cakes
Droppa & Droppa Victoria sponge
Droppa & Droppa fruit cake
Glutafin – white mix
Gluten Free GoodiesV. sponge
Gluten Free Goodies carrot cake
Gluten Free Kitchen ginger cake
Gluten Free KitchenV. sponge
Healthy Cake Co lemon/coconut cake
Honeyrose Victoria sponge
Livwell Victoria sponge
M & S cherry and chocolate
Morrison’s fruit cake slices
Pure Flavour lemon/vanilla sponge
TescoVictoria sponge
TrubitzVictoria Sponge
Winona’s Midnight Sin
11. Puddings –
sponsored by Swedish Glacé
Barkat pancake mix
Christine’s chocolate pudding
Christine’s sticky toffee puddings
Gluten Free Goodies syrup sponge
Hunter’s Sticky toffee puddings
Hunter’s Chocolate fudge pudding
Intolerable Foods blueberry tart
Intolerable Foods pecan tart
Lifestyle pecan tart
Mama Cucina strawberry cheesecake
Mama Cucina mango cheesecake
Morrison’s treacle tart
Morrison’s pancake mix
Mrs Crimble’s pancake mix
OK Foods treacle tart
Orgran apple/cinnamon pancake mix
Provamel vanilla dessert
12. Chocolate/snack bars
Billy Goat Stuff half solid egg
Billy Goat tuff 35% white chocolate
BoojaBooja Champagne truffles
BoojaBooja Midnight expresso truffles
BoojaBooja ginger wine truffles
BoojaBooja hazelnut crunch truffles
Bounce spirulina ginseng
Conscious Sesame chews
D & D chocolate Easter egg
Dietary Needs Direct chocolate egg
Fruitus fruit bites with blackberry
Fruitus chewy apricot bites
Kinnerton luxury chocolate bar
No Nuts Just Chocolate… dark choc
Orgran Fruit filled apricot bar
Orinoco coco minty munch bar
Plamil rum and raisin chocolate
Raw Living Be the Change
13. Christmas foods
Asda gf,wf Xmas pudding
Coop nf, gf,wf Xmas pudding
Droppa & Droppa mince pies
Droppa & Droppa Xmas cake
Especially Delicious Xmas cupcakes
Gluten Free Goodies mince pies
Healthy Cake Co Cake Xmas cake
It’s Nut Free mincemeat
M & S gf Xmas pudding
The Right Ingredient Xmas cake
The Right Ingredient choc brownies
Trubitz mince pies
Trubitz Xmas pie
14. Nut-free
Coop nf, gf,wf Xmas pudding
It’s Nut Free mincemeat
No Nuts Just Chocolate… dark choc
Orgran dinosaur cookies
Orgran multi-grain spirals with amaranth
Proceli bread rolls
Trubitz Xmas pie
Trubitz raisin cookies
Young’s fish fingers
15. Gluten-free beer
Estrall Damm – Estella Daura
Green’s – Premium Pils
Green’s – Premium Golden ABV
Hambleton Ales – GFA-ABV
La Zaragozana – Ambar Celiacos
St Peter’s Brewery – G-Free
Wold Top Brewery – Against the Grain
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