Non-organic food ingredients

The following list of non-organic ingredients are allowed to be included in organic processed foods. These are permitted because it is currently difficult or impossible to source organic versions of these ingredients.

Edible plants:

• Acorns (quercus species)
• Cola nuts (cola acuminata)
• Passion fruit also known as maracujas (passiflora edulis)
• Dried raspberries (rubus idaeus)
• Dried redcurrents (ribes rubrum)
• Peuvian pepper (schinus molle L.)
• Horseradish seeds (armoracia rusticana)
• Lesser galanga (alpina officinarum)
• Safflower flowers (carthamus tinctorius)
• Algae, including seaweeds, which are allowed as ingredients. (Note - spirulina algae (Arthrospira platensis) must be organic.)

Sugars and starches from cereals and tubers:

• Fructose
• Rice paper
• Unleavened bread paper
• Starch from rice and waxy maize

Miscellaneous products:

• Pea protein
• Rum, only obtained from cane sugar juice
• Kirsch made from fruits as a flavouring

Animal products:

• Aquatic organisms, which have been farmed and which are allowed in non-organic food
• Gelatin
• Whey powder
• Natural sausage skin casings

Our licensees cannot use non-organic ingredients that have been irradiated.

You can see the full standards around non-organic ingredients in standards 40.8.20 to 40.8.26 available here.