FreeFrom Food Awards Judging
Judging for the 2012 awards will take place early in
February 2012.
Judges for the FreeFrom Food Awards include:
• Free from food professionals – manufacturers, chefs, cookery writers, nutritionists etc
• Coeliacs and those living on gluten/wheat, dairy, egg, soya, nut etc free diets
• 'Normal' people, both laymen and food professionals, to benchmark the products against their non-freefrom equivalents.
There will be between five and ten judges plus a monitor for each session.
Each category will be judged ‘blind’. Judges will be given judging sheets with the title and all details of the products - except who makes it!
They will be asked to taste the products and, using the criteria of appearance, aroma, texture and taste, to draw up a shortlist.
They will also be asked to make comments that could be helpful to the manufacturers on each product.
They will then be asked to choose winners, highly commendeds and commendeds for that category.
Once they have made their choices, and only then, judges will be shown the packaging for each product so that they can assess the design, the labelling etc and make further comments.
For an in depth discussion of judging criteria for freefrom see this post and this post on the Foodsmatter blog.
Judges for the 2011 Awards:
Final judging panel:
Simon Wright of www.organicandfairplus.com and chair of judges for the Q Awards
Jane Milton of www.notjustfood.co.uk
Janie Suthering – President of the Guild of Food Writers – email
Jeffrey Hyman – Food and Drink Innovation Network
Alex Gazzola – health writer – www.alexgazzola.co.uk
Sue Cane – coeliac and chair of judges for the beer category – email
Judges for other panels:
Christine Bailey of www.advancenutrition.co.uk
Alex Barker – food writer and director of www.foodfeatures.net
John Burke of GF Life Ireland
Anna del Conte – Italian food writer
Lesley Cutts of GoodnessDirect
Jane Dean – director of www.abreathforlife.org
Hulya Erdal – chef and food writer - www.madebythechef.com
Fiona Gale – email
Ralph Goodstone
Carol Greenham – Thames Valley University
Fiona Hunter – nutritionist – food/health writer – email
Gill Jacobs – health writer www.lightforhealth.co.uk
Sara Jayne Stanes www.sarajaynestanes.co.uk
Adele Jenkins – www.whatonearth.co.uk
Miriam Jones – coeliac
Laura Lebetkin – past marketing director of Foods Matter
Lourens
of What on Earth – coeliac
Janette Marshall – food & health writer – www.janettemarshall.co.uk
Jackie Mitchell – freelance food/health writer
Rosemary Moon – food writer, specialist in local foods www.moonbites.info
Micki Rose – nutritionist – www.purehealthclinic.co.uk
Melissa Morgan – www.mscupcake.co.uk
Mary Scott Morgan – food writer and recipe developer – email
Celia Rees Jenkins
Christina Thomas – past administrator of the Guild of Food Writers www.christinathomas.co.uk
Gluten-free beer judges:
John Cryne – CAMRA – email
Christine Cryne – CAMRA
Tony Hedger – CAMRA
Udo van Deventer of Sambrooks Brewery
Sue Cane
If you have any queries or would like to talk to us about the project - please email
Michelle or Cressida or call on 020 7722 2866
Partners for the 2012 FreeFrom Food Awards
The Allergy and FreeFrom Show
The Food and Drink Innovation Network
 Organic and Fair + Consulting
Not Just Food
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