Organic Food Awards - Nominations Open
18/05/2011

http://www.soilassociation.org/

Now in their 23rd 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.

The deadline for entering the awards is Friday 3 June 2011. Please do not send samples with your entry form. We will be in touch with further instructions regarding how to submit your products following receipt of your entry form. Should you have any queries regarding the Food Awards, please contact via the website http://www.soilassociation.org

• Download the entry form (includes rules of entry)[PDF, 195 KB]

Categories

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

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