Nominated Products in the Best Free From Product Award
Sugar-free herbal sweets
Ricola cranberry sugar-free Swiss herbal sweets provide a delicious, refreshing moment of calm whether you’re in the car, on the move, at your desk or lounging at home. Delicate cranberry extract is added to the Ricola 13 Swiss herb blend and sweetened with stevia, with only natural colours and flavours.
www.ricola.com
Pure raw coconut water
Delicious, unpasteurised TIANA 100 per cent Pure Raw Coconut Water has no added sugar. Extracted from fresh, young green coconuts, this fairtrade coconut water, with nothing added and nothing taken away, preserves the same delicious taste and nutrition as drinking fresh coconut juice. No monkeys are used to pick these coconuts.
www.tiana-organics.com
The ultimate in healthier snacking
Eat Real’s Sea Salt Hummus Chips are the ultimate in healthier snacking! Made with all-natural ingredients, they’re free from all 14 major allergens and contain no added sugar, no artificial ingredients and 40 per cent less fat than a standard potato crisp. Suitable for vegan, coeliac, kosher and halal diets.
www.eatreal.co.uk
New-generation alternative to cheese
The closest vegan option to mature cheddar ever made, Violife’s EPIC Mature Cheddar Flavour Block is free-from all allergens (dairy, lactose, soya, gluten and nuts), preservatives and GMOs, and is fortified with vitamin B12. Looking and tasting like the real thing, it also feels, crumbles, grates and melts just like it.
www.violifefoods.com
A vegan Christmas treat
Plamil So free, the original vegan company and inventors of vegan ‘milky’ chocolate, have created this Vegan Smooth Salted Caramel Advent Calendar. The salted caramel chocolate has no milk (they use rice), is wheat and gluten-free and made in a factory with a strict no-nut and no-peanut policy using 100 per cent renewable energy.
www.plamilfoods.co.uk
Stay fuller for longer
More than a regular gluten-free pasta, Tree of Life Organic Red Lentil Fusilli Pasta is made in Italy from 100 per cent organic legumes providing 26 per cent protein, which keeps you fuller for longer. Made from only natural ingredients with no binders or fillers, this fusilli is certified gluten-free and is ideal for plant-based lifestyles.
www.treeoflifefoods.co.uk
Free from baking cups
If You Care Baking Cups are perfect for sweet and savoury baked goods. Your muffins, cupcakes, mini quiches and other recipes won’t stick to these baking cups because of their natural easy-release properties. The product is totally chlorine-free, so no chlorine or chlorine derivatives are dumped into our lakes, rivers and streams.
www.ifyoucare.com
Free from baking paper
If You Care Parchment Baking Paper is made from unbleached, totally chlorine-free (TCF) greaseproof paper so no chlorine or chlorine derivatives are dumped into our lakes, rivers and streams. The product is ideal for free from baking, roasting, reheating and wrapping.
www.ifyoucare.com
Delicious yogurt alternative
Koko Plain is a delicious yogurt alternative with a smooth, mellow taste and a soft silky texture. It’s made with live dairy-free cultures and is free from soya, dairy and artificial flavourings, colours and preservatives. It’s perfect with fruit and cereals or in smoothies, dips and cooking.
www.kokodairyfree.com
Get energy without caffeine
Made with the antioxidant properties of the caffeine free-herb Jiaogulan, INNERJI which works with your body to help activate blood flow and circulation, increases the supply of oxygen and nutrients to muscles and tissues to give you the natural boost you need.
innerjidrink.com
Unique plant-based pesto
SHORE’s Sea Kitchen red pepper, dulse & chilli pesto is packed with rich umami flavour and nutritious minerals. Made sustainably with hand-picked Scottish seaweed and vegan cheese, this unique pesto is 100 per cent plant-based, gluten-free, high in iodine and perfect on pasta or added to crème fresh for an amazingly versatile sauce.
www.shoreseaweed.com