Australia’s most innovative natural health businesses in the highly competitive food and beverage space have been announced as nominees for the Naturally Good 2023 Awards
The winners will be announced at the awards cocktail night on Monday, 5 June, at Sydney’s ICC.
In addition to food and beverage, awards will also be presented to businesses in the sectors of home and living, beauty and cosmetics, manufacturing, complementary medicine and retail leader.
With the awards having launched for the first time at Naturally Good last year, event Product Manager, Sinead Kavanagh, said the amount of interest this year had only built even further. “We were so impressed by the calibre of entries,” she said. “The utmost care has been taken with everything from ingredients to packaging, manufacturing and branding for all these products, which are really making an impact in the healthy living space.”
First time exhibitors, Teaesk boutique tea and herbal blend brand, has been nominated for both Best Beverage Product for Black Tea & Lemon Iced Tea, and for Best New Brand.
Teaesk’s Head of Innovation & Marketing, Fabian Di Marco said for their first Naturally Good event, the company is looking to build more relationships with not just potential buyers and distributors, but also potential partners.
“We believe tea, and especially iced tea is an unrealised market,” he said. “Not that there isn’t a market, there are 9 million people in Australia who drink tea once per month, but rather, there’s a gap in it. To build market awareness we need to collaborate with partners and work together with stockists and peers.”
Past 2022 award winners, Elato Ice Cream, are nominated this year for Best Food Product and Best Free from Product. “The awards are worth entering, they are very well run,” said founder and CEO Roz Kaidor-Aroni. “It helps gain recognition in the community for a better for you brand.”
See the full list of nominees here:
Best Food Product
Meru Miso – Chilli Miso Soup
LoveRaw – M:lk Choc Nutty Choc Balls
TLKC Fry Family Food – Fry’s Chick’n Pieces Peri-Peri
Health Guru – Cauliflower Puffs
Proper Crisps – Cheeza Peno Tortilla Chips
La Petite Fauxmargerie – Rebel & Rascal
Elato Ice Cream
Best Beverage Product
H2coco – H2juice Pineapple
Refresho – Exotic Soursop
Four Sigmatic – Think Organic Coffee
Bega Daily Juice – Mango Juice Blend + Protein
SunJuse – Sparkling Mandarin & Passionfruit
Soulfresh – Los Bros Not Soda
Teaesk – Black Tea & Lemon Iced Tea
Best Functional Food or Beverage Product
Buderim Bioactive – Ginger + Shots
Berkelo – Sourdough Pasta
Yacon New Zealand – NZFOS+ Yacon Prebiotic
Nutra Organics – Captain Calm
Nutra Organics – Veggie Hero
Bragg – All Purpose Seasoning
Best Free From Product
Jomeis Fine Foods – Hoodles
Elato Ice Cream
Natural Approach – Bicarb Free Rosalina & Honey Myrtle Natural Deodorant
Budee – Chocolate Spread
Chocolate On Purpose – Walking On Country Chocolate Bar Vegan Milk Chocolate with Guwandang
Continental Taralli Biscuits – Mediterranean Savoury Crackers Fennel & Olive Oil
Fiji Fire – Native Bongo Chilli Hot Sauce
Best Australian Manufactured Product
Swift Grow – Organic Fertiliser
Double ‘D’ – Smart Sweets
Yeppoonie Smoothie – Smoothie Powder
SunJuse – Sparkling Mandarin & Passionfruit
Best Socially Conscious Brand
The Kind Harvest Co.
Little Ripples
Whole Earth & Sea
Soulfresh Lo Bros Not Soda
Chocolate On Purpose
Eat For You
Best Organic Product
Organic Times – Drinking Chocolate
Meru Miso – Mushroom Miso Soup
Best Home & Living Product
Australian Natural Soap Company – All Natural Soap Flakes
The Naturool Co. – One Wrap
Bosisto’s – Power+ Laundry Liquid
Good Change – Refill Cleaning Tablet and & Bottle Starter Box
Viam Organics – Room Spray – Honey & Lemon Myrtle
Good Change – Bamboo Reusable Towels
Best Beauty & Cosmetics
La Maxime – Dewy Glowy Exfoliating Scrub & Hydrating Mask
Ethique – Vegan Lipsticks
Antipodes – Lime Caviar Collagen-Rich Firming Cream
Lust Minerals – AHA Exfoliating Lotion
Ena Products – Essential Oil Roll
Newnordic – Hayaluronic Active Serum
Best Complementary Medicine Brand
Organic Collagen Australia
Eco.kid Organics For Kids
Herbs of Gold
Best New Brand
The Good Farm Shop
Meia
Blaze HFS Fierce
Teaesk
Sensoriam
Trailblazer
Tammy Fry – Livekindly Collective
Dale Parkes – Unique Health Products
Retail Leader
Wayne Marshall – Go Vita
Martine Cooper – Healthy Life
The Naturally Good Expo is on from 5-6 June, 2023, at Sydney’s International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour. For registrations and queries visit HERE .
