Food Matters Live reveals winners of its awards

The awards recognise the creativity and inventiveness of the industry to produce products and ingredients that meet the ever-changing demands and palates of health conscious and trend-hungry consumers.

The winners include enterprising food and drink start-ups, challenger brands and high street names – all eager to gain recognition for their success in innovative product development, groundbreaking science and technology, sustainability initiatives, or for packaging design and consumer marketing strategies.

Each winner received an award - creatively designed around the concept of a taste bud and incorporating the five senses of taste – at a special ceremony hosted at the Food Matters Live event.

Briony Mansell-Lewis, director of Food Matters Live said, “We were incredibly impressed by the standard and quality of entries to our first-ever Food Matters Live Awards - there were very strong contenders in each category. While it was a tough choice, we’re pleased to recognise the outstanding achievements of the winners, who can only be described as innovative trailblazers of the food and drink industry.”

The awards reflect the themes at the heart of Food Matters Live, which is the only three-day event that brings together experts from the food and drink industry, retailers, foodservice providers, policy makers, nutritionists and healthcare professionals at London’s ExCeL on 21st-23rd November.

The awards shine a spotlight on the innovation behind the growth of ever healthier, natural and organic, sustainable and ‘better for you’ food products defining the future food and drink landscape.

The winners of the new awards are:

Innovative ‘Better for You’ Product of the Year
Avocado Oil Mayonnaise Classic
Hunter & Gather Foods Ltd

Innovative Natural and Organic Product of the Year
Pomegranate Molasses & Turmeric Raw Kale Chips
Biolicious

Most Innovative Food to Go Product of the Year
Snackamole
Born Tasty Ltd

Best Natural Ingredient for Health and Wellbeing
Spectra
Van Eeghen Functional Ingredients

Best Functional Ingredient for Health and Wellbeing
SlimBiome
OptiBiotix Health Plc

Sustainability Initiative of the Year
Rice Sustainability Initiative
Mars Food UK

Best Food and Drink Process or Technology
evapEOS technology
Ederna

Innovative Packaging Design of the Year
Heat & Eat
Fairfields Farm Produce Ltd

Marketing Campaign of the Year
The Great Fruit and Veg Adventure
The Great Fruit and Veg Adventure

New Food and Drink Product of the Year
I Sea Wraps
Seamore

Rosemary Water – sparkling variant
Rosemary Water