Soil Association Organic Food Awards
Now in their 24th year, the Soil Association Organic Food Awards are the most prestigious and widely respected in the organic sector and are open to any product certified as organic by a recognised organic certification body within the EU.
Public nominations for the awards are now open. Consumers can help promote the best quality organic food by nominating their favourite organic products for the awards. To nominate your favourite, email Laura Andrews: landrews@soilassociation.org with the exact name of the product and brand you would like to nominate, the reason why you love it so much and your contact details for entry into the prize draw.
The awards provide the opportunity for producers to showcase their best quality organic food and drink and be given the accolade of a winning certificate and logo for ongoing promotional use.
With the help of an expert panel of judges including chefs, restaurateurs, food writers and specialists, alongside celebrity foodies, the aim of these awards is to create greater public awareness of the values of organic production, positive food culture, and the range and quality of organic food and drink available.
Companies can register their interest in the awards and be notified when application forms are available by emailing Laura Andrews on landrews@soilassociation.org
The twelve categories for the awards are as follows:
1. Baby, infant & children food
Including fresh, frozen, jars and packets, savoury and sweet, snacks and drinks
2. Baked goods
Including loaves, rolls, fruit breads and breads with added ingredients
3. Beer & cider
Including bottled, conditioned, draught, fruit and ginger beer
4. Cakes & biscuits, confectionery & desserts
All chocolate and non chocolate based confectionery including fruit sweets, mints and liquorice. All cakes and sweet and savoury biscuits
5. Cereals
Including muesli, flakes and porridge oats
6. Dairy
Milk, cream, butter, eggs, cheese (including hard, soft, fresh, traditional and modern, domestic and foreign varieties). Yoghurt & ice cream (including plain, flavoured and frozen yoghurts)
7. Fruit & vegetables
Prepared and unprepared, including exotic and fungi
8. Meat & fish
Lamb, mutton, beef, veal, pork, poultry (including duck and game), sausages (including all fresh varieties), charcuterie (including bacon, cold prepared and cured meats and pate) and fish (including farmed freshwater, shellfish, smoked and cured fish)
9. Non alcoholic drinks
Including coffee (beans, grounds, instant and decaffeinated), teas (blends, flavoured, herbal and infusions). Juices, carbonated drinks, milkshakes, drinking yoghurts and smoothies and hot drinks
10. Prepared food
Including burgers, patties, kebabs, meatballs and prepared cuts and joints, pies, pasties, quiches and savoury tarts, crisps, corn snacks, nuts, sandwiches and salads
11. Store cupboard staples
Condiments including dressings, sauces, oils mustards, vinegars. Savoury preserves and spreads including chutneys, relishes, pickles. Sweet preserves including jams. Cooking ingredients including oils, rices and grains, herbs and spices, dried fruit and pulses, olives, readymade pastry. Flour, soups (including fresh and preserved), sauces (including pasta and curry sauces and pestos) and soya
12. Wine & spirits
Red, white, rose & sparkling, other alcoholic drinks including spirits and fortified wines, liqueurs, fruit wines and mead
Congratulations to last year's winners:
Baby, Infant and Children Food
Organix: Apple & Strawberry / Apple & Peach Dual
Baked Goods
The Bertinet Bakery: Sourdough
Beer and Cider
Little Valley Brewery: Tod's Blonde 5.0% Organic, Vegan, Bottle Conditioned Real Ale
Cakes and Biscuits, Confectionery and Desserts
Tideford Organics: Butterscotch Rice Pudding
Cereal
Duchy Originals from Waitrose: Oat and Apple Porridge
Dairy
Stichelton Dairy: Traditional Raw Milk Blue Cheese
Fruit and Vegetables
SG Danby & Sons and Abel & Cole: Chioggia Beetroot
Meat and Fish
Langley Chase: Organic Manx Loaghtan mutton
Non-alcoholic Drinks
Tea Palace: Detox Herbal Infusion
Grove Fresh Ltd: Organic Traditional Lemonade
Prepared Foods
Higher Hacknell Farm: Cottage Pie
Brocklebys: Chicken and Ham Pie
Store Cupboard Staples
Aspall: Organic White Wine Vinegar
Wine and Spirits
Vinceremos Wines: Malbec Caligiore