Bondi chai latte wins gold in Hobart

Bondi Chai – Australia’s own chai latte – has become the first chai latte to earn Australian food industry acclaim with two gold medals at the recent Wrest Point Royal Hobart Fine Food Awards.
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The snack attack

Snacks have become a convenient and relatively cheap substitute for goodies formerly baked at home, with increased disposable incomes combining with product development to result in significant sector growth.
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Less salt more action

Salt in processed foods amounts to more than 75% of that consumed by Australians. Combating this is the campaign by Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health (AWASH) to reduce these numbers, which is gaining momentum.
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Fortune cookies

Despite the presence of smaller firms, biscuit manufacturing is moving toward larger-scale, concentrated production and consequently has significantly fewer firms than a decade earlier.
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Goodman Fielder year profit down 88.4%

Goodman Fielder has reported a fall in annual profit and has said it does not expect much improvement in earnings this financial year due to uncertainty surrounding the outlook for the economies of Australia and New Zealand.
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This snack takes the Crunch

CrunchTime, the Highly Commended Snack Food, is an innovative range of crunchy, tasty and nutritious cluster breakfast snacks developed just for kids, in line with school canteen nutritional guidelines.
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Don’t panic, it’s organic

Organic Bubs, the innovative new range of 100% certified organic meals for under fives, has been named Highly Commended in this year’s Challenge Awards Ready Meals category.
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Creative Food Solutions does it again

In conjunction with ALDI, Creative Food Solutions have developed a range of ready to heat and serve restaurant quality meals for the retail market for their third Challenge win, this time in the highly contested Ready Meals Award.
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Going nuts for Not Nuts

The winner of this year's Confectionery Award was Sweet William's Not Nuts chocolate bar - a unique combination of creamy chocolate and roasted soy beans, inside a completely nut free chocolate bar, with all the crunch and taste of nuts.
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CarboNZero to hero

Pitango, the world's first fresh meal manufacturer to become carbon neutral, was named Winner of the Health & Wellness Category at the 2008 Awards.
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The winner takes it all

With their quirky names, original packaging and unique array of Australian ingredients, the Australian Vodka Company's Australian Herbal Liqueur and Moulin Rooz Absinthe were the clear standouts in this competitive category, taking the Winner and Highly Commended prizes.
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Looky looky, it’s an Ookie

Taking first place in the Baked Goods category is a product that's attacking the lucrative school canteen market, and becoming the big new name in lots of little mouths.
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