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2008-2013 Winners

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Award Winners

2008

Winner of the FAIR Trophy for the best free-from food 2008 – Roley’s teff flour mix

Innovation award – Oatly Oat Cream

Category winners:

  1. Dairy (cow) free – ‘milk’, cheese, butter, spreads – Delamere mature goat’s cheddar
  1. Dairy (cow) free – ice cream, chocolate, desserts & yogurts – Swedish Glacé rich chocolate
  1. Gluten free breads (breads & bread mixes) – Roley’s teff flour mix
  1. Gluten free pastas, pizzas, pies & sauces – Mixwell gluten-free pizza mix
  1. Gluten free cakes, muffins & puddings – Gluten-free Kitchen Coffee & Walnut Sponge
  1. Gluten free – cereal bars & biscuits (sweet and savoury) – Mrs Crimbles coconut macaroons
  1. Wheat free – Biona Wholemeal Rye Bread
  1. Egg free – Mrs Crimble’s Dutch Apple cake

2009

Winner of the FAIR Trophy for the best free-from food – The Healthy Cake Company

Innovation award – Genius gluten-free white bread

Category winners:

  1. Breakfast cereals – Barkat organic chocolate rice crunchies
  1. Bread and bread mixes – Proceli Complet brown rice bread
  1. Pasta, pizza and pizza bases – Dietary Specials pasta – mais and riso
  1. Pies, flans, sausages and sauces – Anila’s spicy korma curry sauce
  1. Savoury snacks and biscuits – Mrs Crimble’s original cheese bites
  1. Cakes, muffins and sweet biscuits – Gluten Free Kitchen carrot cake and Healthy Cake Company organic carrot and raisin cake
  1. Chocolate and cereal bars – Plamil orange chocolate with cranberries
  1. Christmas goodies – Especially Delicious Christmas cake
  1. Milk and yoghurt – Tesco semi-skimmed goat’s milk
  1. Butter, cheese and spread – Tofutti creamy smooth original
  1. ‘Ice creams’, puddings and desserts – Swedish Glacé Vanilla Lollies
  1. Products made in a nut-free environment – Plamil orange chocolate with cranberries

2010

Winner of the FAIR Trophy for the best free-from food 2010 – Pure Flavour Lemon and Vanilla sponge

Innovation Award – Gluten Free Kitchen Seeded Bread Rolls

Category Winners:

  1. Animal milk, cream, butter, yogurt and ice cream – Laverstoke Park Buffalo milk
  2. Non-animal milk, cream, butter, yogurt and ice cream – Oatly Cream
  3. Breads and bread mixes – Mrs Crimble’s Fresh white bread
  4. Pasta – Rizopia Organic brown rice fusilli
  5. Pizza bases and mixes and ready made pastry and pastry mixes – Wellfoods Pizza base
  6. Savoury pies, flans, pizzas  and ready meals – Young’s Gluten and dairy-free fish fingers
  7. Savoury biscuits and snacks – Trufree Pretzels
  8. Scones, sweet tarts, Bakewells, flapjacks and brownies – Asda Fruit teacakes
  9. Sweet biscuits and cookies – Prewett’s Ginger cookies
  10. Cakes, muffins and cake and muffin mixes – Pure Flavour Lemon and vanilla sponge and Gluten Free Kitchen Victoria sponge
  11. Puddings, sweet pies, desserts and cheesecakes – Gluten Free Goodies Syrup sponge
  12. Chocolate and sweet snacks – BoojaBooja Organic ginger wine truffles
  13. Christmas products – Cooperative Food Nut-free, gluten-free, wheat-free Christmas pudding and Trubitz Christmas pie
  14. Products manufactured in a nut-free environment – It’s Nut Free Christmas mincemeat
  15. Gluten-free beer – Estrella Damm Estrella Daura ABV 5.4% and Green’s Premium Golden Ale ABV 4.8%

2011

Winner of the FAIR Trophy for the best free-from food  – Doves Farm – Gluten and wheat free white self-raising flour blend

Innovation Award – Mamma Cucina gluten, wheat, dairy and egg-free vegetable quiche

Category winners:

  1. Dairy and/or lactose free animal milk, butter and yogurt – Delamere Dairy – Goat’s butter
  1. Plant (soya, rice,oat, nut, potato) ‘milk’, spread and ‘cheese’) – Hain Celestial – Rice Dream and Le Sojami – Fresh soya paté with olives
  1. Breakfast cereals – Nature’s Path – Organic Mesa Sunrise 
  1. Breads and bread mixes – Dietary Specials – Brown Ciabatta rolls
  1. Pasta and pizza bases/mixes – Hale & Hearty – Quinoa and rice penne
  1. Foods manufactured for food service – Doves Farm – Batter mix and Doves Farm – Fairtrade biscuit crumb
  1. Ingredients: flour, stock, pastry, sauces – Doves Farm – Gluten and wheat free white self-raising flour blend
  1. Savoury pies, flans, pizzas  and ready meals – Look What We Found – Spiced lamb meatballs and The Black Farmer – Premium pork sausages
  1. Savoury biscuits and snacks – Clearspring – Organic rice cakes and Clearspring Sea vegetable and tamari and Tamari and black sesame
  1. Scones, sweet tarts and brownies – Go Free Foods – Chocolate and almond brownies
  1. Sweet biscuits and cookies – Pourtoi – Raisin chocolate chip cookies
  1. Cakes and cake mixes – Marks & Spencer – Almond frangipane traybake
  1. Puddings, sweet pies, desserts and cheesecakes – BoojaBooja – Stuff in a Tub Hunky punky chocolate
  1. Chocolate and sweet snacks – Chocolate: Go*Do – Chocolate bar (milk, gluten & wheat free) and Sweet snacks: Conscious Food – Ginger crunch
  1. Christmas products – Sainsbury – FreeFrom Christmas pudding
  1. Gluten-free beer – Green’s – Bottle Refermented Blonde Ale

2012

Winner of the FAIR Trophy for the best free-from food – Vegusto – Mild Aromatic Dairy-Free Cheese

Innovation Award – Bessant & Drury Fine Ice Cream Co. – Lemon

Category winners:

  1. Dairy and/or lactose free animal milk, butter and yogurt – Woodlands Dairy – Gooseberry & Elderflower with Natural Sheep Milk Yoghurt
  2. Plant (soya, rice,oat, nut) ‘milk’, spread and ‘cheese’ – CoYo – Coconut Yoghurt Natural and Vegusto – Mild Aromatic Dairy-Free Cheese
  3. Breakfast cereals – Sainsbury’s – FreeFrom Oaty Granola
  4. Breads and bread mixes – Fria – Grova Dark Seeded Sliced Loaf
  5. Pasta and pizza bases/mixes – Farabella – Acini di Pepe/Pasta Grains
  6. Foods manufactured for food service – Red House Foods – Gluten Free Chicken Bites and Sauces of Choice – Sauces for Kids Tikka Sauce
  7. Ingredients: flour, stock, pastry, sauces – Anila’s Sauces – Goan Green Sauce and Bob’s Red Mill – Gluten Free All Purpose Baking Flour
  8. Raw foods and superfoods – inSpiral – Raw Dehydrated Kale Chips: Cheesie Purple Corn
  9. Savoury pies, flans, pizzas  and ready meals – Co-operative Foods – Truly Irresistible Minted Lamb Burgers and Gluten Free Kitchen – Ovencrust Chicken & Bacon Pie
  10. Savoury biscuits and snacks – Darling Spuds – Tomato, Olive & Oregano Crisps and Juvela – Crostini Bites
  11. Scones, sweet tarts and brownies – Sugargrain – Almond, Apricot and Tahini Flapjack and Sweetcheeks – Almondies
  12. Cakes and cake mixes – The Cake Crusader – Gluten, Wheat and Dairy Free Carrot Cake and Sweetcheeks – Maple & Pecan Cupcakes
  13. Puddings, sweet pies, desserts and cheesecakes – Food Heaven – Sicilian Lemon Cheesecake
  14. Chocolate and sweet snacks – Booja Booja – Rum Sozzled Sultana Chocolate Truffles
  15. Christmas products – Foodamentalists – Gluten, wheat and dairy-free Frangipane Mince Pies
  16. Gluten-free beer – Daas – Ambre Beer

2013 

Winner of the FAIR Trophy for the best free-from food – Bessant & Drury Lemon, Dairy Free Frozen Dessert

Innovation Award – Dell’Ugo Chickpea Fusilli

Category winners:

  1. Freefrom breakfast cereals – Doves Farm Fibre Flakes and Hale & Hearty Choco Jungle Cereal 
  2. Freefrom breads and bread mixes – Sainsbury’s FreeFrom Soft Brown Seeded Bread and Indian Coeliac Paratha 
  3. Grocery ambient/store cupboard – pasta & pizza bases and sauces, flour stock etc – Pasta – Riso Gallo 3 cereali – Spaghetti and Rizopia Organic Brown Rice Pasta Elbows and Hale & Hearty GF Breadcrumbs 
  4. Freefrom foods manufactured for food service – savoury and sweet – Hotch Potch Eggs Savoury Scotch Eggs and Pizza Hut GF Pizza and Glamourpuds Hot Chocolate Fu
  5. Freefrom ready meals: pizzas, pies and pasties; one pot meals to include ‘world food’; meat meal centres – Freedom Deli Ham & Cheese Panini and Lifestyle Catering Catalan Pork and Pig & Co Lucanian Roman Sausage
  6. Raw foods and superfoods – Orgran Multigrain Crispibread with Quinoa
  7. Freefrom children’s food – Bessant & Drury Dairy Free Frozen Dessert – Chocolate and Rizopia Organic Brown Rice Pasta Fantasia and Tesco Free From Chocolate Dessert Shakes 
  8. Freefrom savoury biscuits and snacks – Conscious Foods Finger Millet Dippers
  9. Freefrom scones, sweet tarts, sweet biscuits and cookies – Christine’s Puddings Frangipane Tart
  10. Freefrom cakes, cake mixes and cupcakes – Waitrose LOVE Life GF Millionaire Blondies
  11. Chocolate and snack bars – Sainsbury’s FreeFrom Mint Crisps
  12. Christmas foods – Hale & Hearty Luxury Mince Pies 
  13. Gluten-free beer – non-barley based and barley based – Green’s Lager Dry Hopped and Celia Premium Czech Lager
  14. Products manufactured in a nut-free environment – Eskal FreeNut Butter