Baked goods specifically for breakfast consumption, Inclusive of muffins, croissants, crumpets, pancakes, pastries etc.

Any savoury biscuit including crackers, oatcakes, breadsticks etc

Any sweet biscuit including cookies, shortbread, biscotti, packet biscuits such as digestives or bourbons

All flatbreads and wraps, including pittas, focaccia, naan and garlic breads

Any loaves, rolls, bagels and baps, pre-sliced or unsliced, from the Bakery counter or on shelf

Any cereal or porridge e.g. porridge, cereal, granola. For cereal bars, see Snacks

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Cereal
• Granola and Muesli
• Porridge
  

Chocolate bars, boxes, sharing bags e.g. fudge, tablets, truffles, seasonal (excludes Christmas), sweets, nougat, marshmallows

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Bars (includes sharing bars and individual)
• Boxes and Gifted
• Sharing Bags (anything that comes in a sharing bag)
• Sweets
  

Anything you add to your meal after preparation to enhance the flavour, i.e. mayonnaise, ketchup, balsamic glaze etc. For vinegar – see ‘Oils and Vinegars’.

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• BBQ and Burger sauce
• Jellies and Savoury sauce (e.g. mint sauce)
• Ketchup
• Mayonnaise
• Mustard
• Salad Dressing (includes Caesar, balsamic glaze dressing etc)
  

Anything you add to your meal during the cooking stage, i.e. stir-in pasta sauce or pesto etc.

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Wet or Dry Rubs (e.g. seasoning mixes)
• Pastes and Marinades
• Jar or Sachet Sauces
  

Includes butters and spreads, milk, cream, yoghurt. Excludes Cheese. For Kefir, see Pickled and Fermented

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Butters and Spreads
• Creams and Custards
• Milk (for flavoured milk drinks – see ‘Soft Drinks’)
• Yoghurt
  

Sweet pudding or desserts, whether they be stored ambient, chilled or frozen e.g. cheesecakes, tarts, crumbles, pies, crème brulée, sticky toffee pudding. Excludes ice cream and lollies.

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Cheesecakes
• Crumbles, Pies and Tarts
• Individual Desserts (mousses, mini trifles, crème caramel, crème brulée, panna cotta etc.)
• Sponges (includes sticky toffee puddings, hot fudge cakes, melt in the middle puddings, chocolate puddings)
  

Inclusive of all unprepared eggs e.g. chicken, duck, quail, and varieties e.g. blue, brown

Any product enhanced with additional nutrients or proteins to increase nutritional profile, functionality, boost brain health etc. Including protein shakes, powders, or bars; products with added brain supplements e.g. lion’s mane, creatine, other nootropics etc

Including pre-prepared, ready to eat sandwiches, wraps and salads, ready to heat/eat hot food products, sushi

Dropdown Options:

• Salads
• Sandwiches and Wraps
• Sushi
• Hot and Heat to Eat
• Vegan
  

Fresh or frozen fruit including prepared or unprepared e.g. whole fruits, pre-cut fruit pots, frozen mixed berries.

Includes coffee ground, instant and pods (excludes beans); tea and herbal tea; hot chocolate etc.

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Coffee
• Hot Chocolate
• Tea Black
• Tea Herbal
• Other

Any ice cream or ice lolly product including individual hand-held lollies, tubs and pots, frozen yoghurt, sorbet

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Handheld/Individual
• Tubs

Any prepared or unprepared accompaniments to a main meal whether ambient, chilled or frozen.

Any meal or recipe kits that include all the flavouring and accompaniments to a meal and may or may not already include the protein. Includes subscription recipe kits that come with a menu card e.g. fajita kits, curry kits, whole menu options from a weekly delivery

Any oil or vinegar to use in cooking or add to a meal e.g. balsamic vinegar, rapeseed oil

Pasta or noodles, can be fresh or dried, with or without filling; rice; grains and pulses of any variety, e.g. couscous, pearl barley etc.

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Grains
• Noodles
• Pasta Dried
• Pasta Fresh
• Pulses
• Rice
  

Any food which has been fermented or pickled whether dairy, vegetable or grains based i.e. kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha etc.

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Kimchi and Sauerkraut
• Kefir and Kombucha
  

Pizza with any type of toppings, including chilled and frozen.

Including jams, marmalades, sweet spreads, syrups, honey, nut butters

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Honey
• Jam and Marmalade
• Nut Butters
• Sweet Spreads (chocolate spread, caramel spread etc)
• Syrups
  

Includes ambient, chilled or frozen. Also includes sausage rolls, slices and savoury tarts

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Pasties
• Pies
• Quiches and Tarts
• Savoury pastry (e.g. sausage rolls, slices, lattices, samosa, etc)
  

Pre-prepared products that just require heating up at home e.g. seafood linguine, curry and rice, chilli and rice. Products may be split by cuisine/type at judging

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Fish
• Meat
• Vegetarian
• Healthier Options
  

Products specifically created with reduced sugars, salts, fats in comparison to their standard counterparts e.g. reduced fat salad dressings, reduced salt condiments, sugar-free drinks, ice cream etc. Does not include reduced fat meat products or Ready Meals, see ‘Meat’ or ‘Ready Meals’ categories

Any relish or chutney including savoury jams or marmalades suitable for cheese e.g. pickled chutney, onion marmalade

Fresh salads, prepared or unprepared, not intended to provide a whole meal e.g. whole lettuces, salad bags, coleslaw, potato salad. For salads designed to eat immediately, e.g. as a lunchtime option with fork included – see ‘Food to Go’

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Prepared Salads (pre-chopped salad, coleslaw, potato salad, giant couscous salad etc.)
• Salad Items (tomatoes, peppers)
  

Any products targeting specific festivities of the year such as Halloween, Diwali, Easter etc e.g. hot cross buns, pumpkin pie, cardamom biscuits, Valentine’s sweets etc (excludes Christmas, see Christmas categories)

Sweet and Savoury food designed for snacking includes crisps, nuts, popcorn, jerky, cereal bars. Does not include Chocolate

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Crisps
• Jerky
• Nuts
• Dried Fruit
• Popcorn
• Snack Bars/Cereal Bars
• Sweet Bars
  

Includes all juices, smoothies, cold pressed, carbonates, waters, cordials, iced coffee, milkshakes, whether sparkling, still or flavoured

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Carbonates (includes pressé)
• Cold Pressed
• Iced Coffee and Flavoured Milk
• Juices and Smoothies
• Squash and Cordial
• Water (includes tonic water, soda water and flavoured waters)
  

Including ambient, tinned, and chilled soups

Includes home baking kits, herbs and spices, salts, stock, passata, all canned goods except Soup

Dropdown Options

• Cans, Jars and Pouches e.g. gravy granules,
• Cooking Ingredients e.g. breadcrumbs, stock
• Herbs, Spices and Salt
• Home Baking Kits e.g. bread mix, pancake mix
  

Vegetarian products created to replace a meat centrepiece, but may still contain dairy or egg, e.g. halloumi burgers, cheesey veggie sausages etc. For Vegan options – See ‘Vegan Meal Centres’

Fresh or frozen vegetables including prepared or unprepared e.g. whole vegetables, vegetable roasting trays, stir fry kits, frozen broccoli

Subcategory/dropdown Options:

• Prepared Fresh Vegetables
• Whole Fresh Vegetables
• Frozen Vegetables