All of the 2022 Great Taste Award-winning social enterprise products you have to taste
18/8/2022
If you’ve ever been stuck for how to pick a wine, or, well, any two products really, then the Great Taste Awards will give you a helping hand. That’s because the world’s biggest and most trusted food and drink accreditation scheme is a stamp of approval from food industry insiders.
The awards process sees a panel of over 500 food and drink experts put independent products to the taste-test. These chefs, buyers, food writers and retailers give the thumbs up, AKA a 1-, 2- or 3-star accolade to hundreds of products every year. But the competition is fierce. Winning Great Taste stars is seen as one of the highest forms of kudos from food insiders and that industry nod means more trust from consumers.
This year as ever, the Great Taste Awards were announced with lots of delicious treats to tuck into. And we were delighted to see that not unlike previous years, many of our social enterprise products have made the hotly tipped list.
We’re big believers that just because a product has social impact, doesn’t mean it doesn’t compete on quality, or in the case of food & drink – taste. That’s why we’re so pleased to see this well respected accreditation scheme recognise so many of our impact-led brands.
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Teas
Tea in the Moment, Chai Cacao – these loose leaf teas are sustainably made using leftovers from the chocolate-making process.
Tea People, Calming Camomile – Tea People put 50% of their NET profits towards supporting educational infrastructure and improving the lives of underprivileged communities in and around the tea growing regions.
Tea People, China Silver Needle
Coffee
Change Please CiC, Bold Soul – 100% of profits go straight back into the Change Please mission to give people experiencing homelessness a fresh shot at life
Change Please CiC, Smooth Operator
Juice & Kombucha
Flawsome! Drinks, Apple & Rhubarb Lightly Sparkling Juice Drink – saving wonky fruit from going to waste by making healthy sparkling drinks
Flawsome! Drinks, Apple & Strawberry Lightly Sparkling Juice Drink
So Good Kombucha – Gingerlicious – supporting, training and employing refugees.
So Good Kombucha – Strawberry & Basil
So Good Kombucha – Elderflower Mojito
Beer
Brewgooder, Session IPA – supporting clean water and sanitation projects.
Brewgooder, New England IPA
Gin
Pangolin Gin, London Dry Gin – raising awareness for the most trafficked mammal in the world, the pangolin.
One Gin – supporting The One Foundation through a donation of 10% of profits, to ensure everyone has access to clean water.
One Gin, One Port Barrel Rested Gin
Chocolate
Chocolate and Love, Chocolate and Love: Orange – Organic dark chocolate with orange 65% – paying a fairer wage to cacao farmers and planting trees.
Harry Specters, Mango & Raspberry truffle, appearing in such boxes as the Signature Collection and Little bit of Everything – Summer selection – employing autistic adults in this Cambridge-based chocolatier.
Crisps
Güsto snacks wonky apple crisps with a Mango & Passion Fruit twist – saving wonky fruit from going to waste.
Honey & Chutney
Mama Buci, Zambian Honey – Winter Harvest – providing sustainable employment in an impoverished region of Central Zambia.
Mama Buci, Zambian Honey – Summer Harvest
Wonky Food Company, Zesty Lime – saving wonky food from going to waste.
Congrats too to our friends at Bermondsey Street Bees, Black Bee Honey, Divine Chocolate, Island Bakery, Karma Drinks, Love Cocoa, Roots and Wings Organic, Traidcraft and Zaytoun CiC.
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