The Free From Food Awards are the UK’s ONLY awards dedicated to free from food and drink.
We run two awards cycles: the Free From Food Awards and the Free From Christmas Awards, with two independent categories: Easter & Hallowe’en, new for 2024.
Celebrating a free from Christmas
This bespoke awards cycle, designed to recognise and celebrate seasonal and seasonally relevant products, is now firmly established and hotly anticipated amongst entrants, judges, sponsors and consumers who are keen to get ahead with their Christmas planning. What better way to get on the consumer radar this Christmas than with a FFCA24 medal!!
Our Christmas cycle is small but perfectly formed, with categories addressing a wide array of festive occasions from counting down with the traditional (or not so traditional) advent calendars to the Christmas Dinner and everything in-between.
This year, after lots of consumer feedback, we will have a category dedicated to the Christmas classic (and for many a festive quality barometer) – the Mince Pie. Not only will we be awarding medals we’ll also be producing the FFCA Mince Pie Matrix!
We are also looking to put festive sandwiches to the test to determine the ultimate option that will be sure to not only satisfy the tastebuds but deliver the festive feels.
And introducing our Hallowe’en Award
With the growing popularity of Hallowe’en and the development focus on seasonal occasions we are introducing our first ever Hallowe’en Award.
With every year Hallowe’en starts earlier and is more enthusiastically celebrated, but for those with food allergies 31st October is a date which can spook in all the wrong ways.
So in the spirit of the FFFAs we’re raising awareness by celebrating the growing number of yummy and safe options now available, from milk free selection bags and nut free choccies to gluten free bakes… …if it’s ghoulish, and free from one or more of the top 14 allergens, then it would make a great entry.
First launched in 2008, the awards are now highly anticipated events in the free from calendar, celebrating the very best in free from food & drink. And whilst everyone loves a medal, the FFFAs are so much more than this. They are recognised for supporting, promoting and actively encouraging both existing and new product development.
We celebrate the very best in free from and our eye-catching yellow logo assures that a product has been rigorously taste tested and has clear, compliant labelling. Food and drinks that win our awards are benchmarks in the category, and small producers and supermarkets compete on a level playing field for one of our coveted awards.
Since 2008, thousands of free from products have been blind tasted by our specialist judging panels, featuring chefs, developers, manufacturers, nutritionists and allergy reactors, and many of our judges are well-known figures in the food and allergy worlds.
Feedback from our panels has proved invaluable to manufacturers and we pride ourselves in having been instrumental in encouraging development and innovation in the free from market.
The awards are entirely independent, supported by sponsorship and entry fees only. Find out more here.
