Food and Drink

Since The National Lottery Community Fund allocated £5.1 million to Food for Life, the SA reports its Get Togethers are already making an impact

Meridian Foods has expanded its nut butter offer with two new cocoa variants: Cocoa & Peanut and Cocoa & Hazelnut.

Clearspring has introduced Organic Instant Buckwheat, which is gluten-free and ready in five minutes.

In a bid to make dairy-alternatives more easily accessible, Rude Health has adding fresh chilled varieties to its portfolio of organic nut and oat drinks.

Jamie's Italian has won the Feed People Well award for its new children’s menu, on which every dish includes at least two portions of vegetables.

Pukka Herbs has launched two new additions to its organic tea repertoire: Lean Matcha Green and Turmeric Active.

Australia brand Remedy Kombucha has brought its organic fizzy live-cultured drink to the UK.

Returning to Excel over 20-21 September, the annual lunch! trade show is expected to receive more than 6,000 visitors over two days, in pursuit of the latest offer of food-to-go launches.

UK frozen vegan pizza company One Planet Pizza is planning significant upscaling of the business after gaining investment from Heather Mills’ Vbites Ventures.

Ethical tea brand Clipper held a pop-up tea swap in Shoreditch today where consumers were able to swap their usual tea for a box of the brand’s Fairtrade tea and learn about the difference Fairtrade can make to the lives of tea estate workers.

In a new deal with Moving Mountains, Canadian fast-food chain Tim Hortons is to be the first restaurant in the UK to serve the brand’s new Sausage Patty.

New nut concentrate brand Nooj has launched onto the market with its first retail listing in Planet Organic’s eight London stores and online.

Following the decision not to extend free school meals over half term a map has been designed to highlight where families can go for support.

Easy Bean is adding to its cracker range with two new flavours: Yellow Pea & Sunflower Seed and Chickpea, Turmeric & Nigella Seed.

Natural Products News shines a spotlight on the latest launches, campaigns, award wins and more from natural and organic brands and businesses

Online vegan supermarket and delivery box service TheVeganKind (TVK) has raised £3.5 million in Series A funding from Literacy Capital Plc.

A ProVeg International petition opposing the ‘censorship’ of plant-based dairy terms has been successful, as Amendment 171 is rejected by EU.

S-Ventures PLC has announced the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of the UK plant-based nutrition brand Pulsin.

Natural health retailer Karen Williams has celebrated 24 years as owner of The Cornish Health Store, having worked there since 1991.

Further to the Soil Association’s response to Defra’s new Environmental Land Management schemes, OF&G calls for more details of the proposals.