The Snack Foods Award finalists include Absolute Organic Chips, CrunchTime, Curios, John West Tuna to Go, Nutrient Secrets, Select Harvests Lucky Nut Range, SunRice Chicken and Barbecue Flavour Rice Cakes Snack Packs and Sultry Sally Potato Chips. FOOD Magazine congratulates all the finalists in this category.
Absolute Organic Chips
Eco-Farms’ Chips are made using Australian vegetables to produce a healthy snack without the use of pesticides or chemicals. The Chips are presented in colourful packages with a mat finish to create an environmental feel, and come in four organic flavours, including beetroot, sweet potato, sweet chilli & sour cream, and lime & cracked pepper.
www.ecofarms.com.au
CrunchTime
A range of three crunchy, tasty and nutritious cluster breakfast snacks, CrunchTime were developed just for kids, in line with school canteen nutritional guidelines. CrunchTime delivers a crunchy, tasty texture with real pieces of wholegrains and fruit. The innovative use of fruit flavours such as watermelon has seen a hugely positive response from kids, and the single serve sachets, which are convenient to give the kids either for breakfast or as a snack throughout their day, deliver portion control to what kids eat.
www.specialtycereals.com.au
Curios
Breakfast skipping can be as high as 50% within the Australian population, and with the negative effects of missing breakfast significant, Curios aims to provide a convenient nutritious breakfast option for those missing the most important meal of the day. High in protein and fibre, low in fat (less than 5%), and containing 41% wholegrain, the breakfast cereal chip has no added MSG and no more than 20% added sugar. Curios is a totally new breakfast format and a world-first innovation.
www.sanitarium.com.au
John West Tuna to Go
A combination of the goodness of tuna with water crackers, to create a delicious snack to dip into at anytime. Each handy single serve is a generous 61 grams and a natural source of protein and Omega-3. Tuna to Go contains all natural ingredients, with no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. The perfect size for a handbag, work drawer or lunchbox, Tuna to Go is available in three popular tuna flavour combinations – Tomato & Basil, Lemon & Cracked Pepper and Plain.
www.johnwest.com.au
Nutrient Secrets
Multi-functional foods are set to be the next big thing in the marketplace. Lots of ingredients which are naturally better for you, put together in small packages are the way forward. As with the original Slim Secrets range where a niche market was successfully found amongst a highly competitive one, the Nutrient Secrets bars cater for those more interested in nutritional value. Nutrient Secrets Smart Vanilla and Almond is a delicious, chewy snack bar full of nuts, with added flaxseed, ginkgo and a hint of vanilla flavour.
www.slimsecrets.com.au
Select Harvests Lucky Nut Range
To relaunch the Lucky brand with a 50 year heritage, 34 SKUs of cooking nut and snacking products were redesigned, developing a uniform look across the total range. Photography on all packaging was used to enhance appetite appeal with tamper-proof clear seals on snack tubs ensuring product freshness and visibility. The nut, fruit & seed snacking mixes deliver maximum taste appeal for consumers, with a great balance of health and taste.
www.selectharvests.com.au
SunRice Chicken and Barbecue Flavour Rice Cakes Snack Packs
SunRice received many requests for convenient single-serve versions of their flavour rice cakes, with consumers looking for a healthier alternative to chips and traditional crackers for inclusion in school and work lunches. The SunRice Thin Flavoured Rice Cakes were then packaged into convenient three-packs of either Chicken Flavour or Barbecue Flavour. Five packs of each flavour are available in a convenient multi pack format. The product contains 100% Australian grown wholegrain brown rice and was specifically formulated to help meet the recommended daily intake of wholegrain cereals.
www.sunrice.com.au
Sultry Sally Potato Chips
These baked, 97% fat free potato chips, made from Australian potatoes, and come in four flavours — Sea Salt, Thai Sweet Chilli & Lime, Salt & Vinegar and Cheese & Onion — and two pack variants (125g and 75g). The product was developed to address the need for a snack that met the increasing concern in the community for food that is low in fat. It was developed to be of real benefit in the daily fight against obesity, providing an exciting, flavoursome and nutritious snack experience. The Chips have no direct main-stream healthy product competitor that has a potato chip’s mouth-feel, taste and texture.
www.potatomagic.com
The Snack Foods Award is proudly sponsored by Earlee Products.
www.earlee.com.au
Lena Zak is the editor of FOOD Magazine.