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Free From Food Awards

The UK's only industry awards for free from food & drink

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2021 Judging Panel

Judges for the Free From Food Awards include:

  • Freefrom food professionals – manufacturers, chefs, cookery writers, bloggers etc.;
  • Nutritionists, dietitians and other health professionals;
  • Coeliacs and allergy reactors;
  • Laypeople and food professionals without allergies to benchmark products against their non-freefrom equivalents.

Because the freefrom food world is a small one, some of our judges will, inevitably, be professionally involved with some of our entrants. As far as possible we ensure that no judge actually judges a category that one of their clients has entered by asking them to declare any interests they may have when we confirm their booking. Should it happen that a judge does end up on a panel that is judging one of their clients’ products, then they are welcome to remain in the room but they may not comment on the products, nor do we count their marks for that session.

Please see below for the judges that took part in the Free From Food Awards 2021 Main Awards judging sessions

Adam Martyn – Venice Bakery

Alex Gazzola – Allergy Insight

Alex Turtle – Food and Drink Federation

Alexa Baracaia – @foodallergyuk

Alice Bass – M&S

Alison Atkinson – Genius Gluten Free (sponsor)

Barbara Hirst – RSSL

Ben Richardson-Hughes – Holland & Barrett

Benjamin Richardson – Forever Free-From

Carole Bingley – RSSL

Catherine Rose – Catherine Rose Consulting

Chloe Dixon – @peanutfreezone

Christine Bailey – Advance Nutrition

Claire Marriage – Doves Farm

Claire Nuttall – The Brand Incubator

Danielle Bekker – Good Living Brew

Dash Lilley – Three Spirit Drinks

David Ware – Green’s Gluten Free Beers

Dominic Teague – OneAldwych

Fiona Carter – Tesco (sponsor)

Georgia Townend – Lidl

Hannah Parson – Mr Organic

Hazel Gowland – Allergy Action

Jacqui McPeake – JACS Ltd

Jane Milton – JaneMilton.com

Janette Marshall – Janette Marshall

Jason Gibb – Bread & Jam

Jayne Eckett – pro-JECT – Keep Me Safe

Jeanette Long – Romer Labs (sponsor)

Jenny Smith – DigitalJen (sponsor)

Jenny Tscheische – Lunch Box Doctor

John Burke – FreeFrom Food Awards Ireland

Julia Newns – Alimentary Bites

Julianne Ponan – Creative Nature

Kara Bowen – Virtual Cheese Awards

Karen Woodford – Safer Eating

Kate Dowse – Gluten Free Alchemist

Kirsty Henshaw – Kirsty’s

Lindiwe Lewis – The Allergy Table

Lisa Rogers – Just Love Food Co

Liz Allan – Full Circle CI

Liz Sutton – Planted (sponsor)

Lorna Rhodes – Nutrition Dynamics

Lorraine Eve – Tesco (sponsor)

Lucinda Miller – Nature Doc

Lucy Dearing – LucyDearing

Margarita Kalna – Free From Festival

Marnie Searchwell – Marnie Searchwell Cakes

Matthew Ford – Creative Nature

Nadim Ednan-Laperouse – Natasha’s Allergy Research Foundation (sponsor)

Nathalie Newman – Intolerant Gourmand

Nicki Clowes – Synergis Marketing

Olivia Abrahmson – Tastebud Tickler

Paige Wood – Schar (sponsor)

Paula Austin – Tesco (sponsor)

Paul Degnan – GlutenFreePSD

Peter Hargreaves – Alexir

Rachel Burkinshaw – 7 Years to Diagnosis

Rana Roushdi – My GF Bakery

Raquel Lopes – Mr Organic

Rebecca Smith – Glutarama

Robert Sak – Seedful (sponsor)

Robin Longden – Rollagranola

Ruth Holroyd – What Allergy?

Ryan Panchoo – Borough 22

Sarah de Wit – Virtual Cheese Awards

Sarah Summers – Doves Farm

Sarah Yates – Sea Arch

Simon Wright – OF+ Consulting

Sue Warren – Unismack (sponsor)

Tamara Southworth – BOL Foods

Tanya Ednan-Laperouse – Natasha’s Allergy Research Foundation (sponsor)

Tara Taylor – Good Grain Bakery

Zahra Hadi – Nurture Brands

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Marie-Laure Prevost, Fermenti

I just wanted to thank you for your Entrant Feedback 2023 of our product.

It’s a very useful tool and I am still referring to it for ideas. So, many thanks!

Nairn’s

The Free From Food Awards are one of the most credible awards on the circuit, and we tend to enter products every year.  Much of our innovation in recent years has been in the gluten free side of our business so it’s a great opportunity for us to showcase some of our new products.  To free from consumers, displaying the winners logo on pack is a sign of quality and safety, and a win certainly adds value to the conversations our sales team have with their buyer contacts when talking about listings.  The awards themselves are really straightforward to enter and very well organised and they’re attracting some great brands, both big and small, to enter which highlights just how far free from foods have come in recent years.

Bute Island

This year (2018) we won Gold at the Free From Food Awards for our Dairy Free Grated Mild Cheddar Sheese. We have submitted products to these awards over the last ten years, and have been proud to win awards for various products. The process of entering the products is clear and straight  forward. The Bute Island team have attended several of the awards ceremonies and found them to be not only enjoyable, but beneficial for the business. It’s always been a pleasure and an honour to be part of the Free From Awards.

ChocChick

We have been entering the FFF Awards since 2010 and have had some incredible networking opportunities, caught up with industry leaders, begun collaborations and even met with senior buyers who listed our products in stores, so to have won Gold this year for our Cacao Nibbles was the icing on the cake. We are incredibly proud to be part of the Free From family.

Mina Said-AllsoppWildcraft Bakery

The networking opportunities at the FFFA18 party have been really amazing – we’ve met people we have been following on instagram and twitter… We met the founder of Genius which is… AMAZING! We are so excited to put the freefrom logo on our website and all our products.

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Greg Taylor Managing Director, Retrocorn

Our win opened a door to a national distributor in the UK allowing us to get our popcorn in front of all the big UK contract caterers, winning new business with Baxter Storey, Caterlink and many others!  A fantastic award like this really does get you noticed!  We are delighted with our win and will be entering our Hasta La Vista in next years award 100%

 

Emma HeathNairn’s

For us at Nairn’s, winning gold is as much about internal reward as it is about anything external or consumer facing.  For those involved in developing and trialling the products and bringing them to market, winning any of the FFAs further recognition of a job well done and gives a real sense of pride and achievement to the team.

FFFA19 Gold Winner for Caramelised Onion Flatbreads

Sue WarrenStrategic Development Director, Unismack

The FFFA have been at the forefront of driving innovation, awareness and availability of an increasing range in the Free From arena since before it was a trend. The FreeFrom Food awards remain a focus point for the industry and are a great platform for communication and engagement

Julia MarriottDietitian, allergy sufferer and judge at #FFFA

The website gives one place where parents can go and look to see which companies have been shortlisted, who won… it’s a great chance to see the range of products available on the freefrom market that aren’t just in their local supermarkets. Products that have got the FreeFrom Food Awards logo give parents confidence that not only do they taste good, but they have been checked for ingredients and safe manufacturing processes, that sort of thing – it gives them confidence in the products they are choosing.

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