Welcome to the UK Quality Food Awards

The longest-running, most prestigious food awards in the UK.

Now in its 46th year, the Quality Food Awards casts a spotlight on products that offer fine ingredients, great taste and aroma, beautiful packaging and superb value for money. Winning a Quality Food Award is an outstanding achievement. It means that your product has been judged to be the very best by renowned industry experts – and that really is something to shout about.

Entries into the 2025 UK Quality Food Awards are now closed.

UK Quality Food Awards entries are judged by our independent judging panel of over 100 industry experts during an extremely rigorous judging process. By winning a UK Quality Food Award, and displaying the logo on the products, you are demonstrating to both existing and potential customers that you have earned the gold standard of excellence.

All entrants receive detailed feedback from our esteemed panel of judges, and winners also benefit from receiving a recognised accreditation that helps to facilitate new business and accelerate the process of breaking into the retail market.

Performance Award entries are still open!

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Highlights from the 2024 Quality Food Awards

Meet our 2024 winners

Success Stories

Small Producer/Winner Spotlight: Ambry

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Meet Sandra, Farhad and Elliot - co-founders of Ambry - the Small Producer that won Product of the Year AND Small Producer of the Year in 2023!

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Introducing Winnie’s Original: Small Producer of the Year 2024

Winnie's Original
07/30/2025

SPONSORED CONTENT: Winnie's Original, an Oxford-based jam manufacturer, embodies a unique blend of luxury and culture, offering a range of handmade jams, sauces, and condiments that are as inspiring as their vibrant background. Founded not on a long family heritage, but on a "realised dream working its way out of creative expression and a love of great food," Winnie's Original stands out for its passionate approach to crafting exceptional preserves.

Sainsbury’s targets over 100 prime sites to accelerate UK store expansion

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Sainsbury's Grocery Retail
07/30/2025

Sainsbury’s is fast-tracking its UK store growth strategy with plans for more than 100 new outlets in strategic locations. Highlights include a flagship West Hendon store featuring ultra-rapid EV charging and fresh openings across regions, while some developments face planning hurdles, reflecting the supermarket’s ambitious regional and sustainability commitments under Patrick Dunne’s leadership.

Aldi to pay store assistants a minimum of £13 an hour nationally from September 2025

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Grocery Retail Aldi
07/30/2025

Aldi will become the first UK supermarket to guarantee a minimum hourly wage of £13.00 for store assistants nationwide from September 2025, surpassing the Real Living Wage and reinforcing its position as the highest-paying grocer. Pay within the M25 will rise to £14.33, with increments for service length, amid fierce competition in retail labour markets.

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We received such a positive response from Fused customers and retail buyers when we shared the news that we won a Quality Food Award. The Quality logo gives small food businesses credibility in a busy space. Since winning this award we are able to connect with Fused customers in-store and online by sharing the Quality logo on in-store displays, product labels and social media platforms.

Fiona Uyema CEO & Founder Fused by Fiona Uyema

Winning a Quality Food Award is a great way to thank all teams involved in creation, assure our retail partners and equally great way to turn customer heads in a positive way. Winning an award improves sales, feel good factor and everlasting happiness!

Jason Danciger Managing Director UK & Ireland Hana Group

Entering awards not only boosts credibility but also provides an opportunity to showcase your product to a wider audience and gain invaluable feedback to enhance its quality and appeal. We encourage all the small businesses we support to enter.

Shauna McFall, Seasons of the Glens

"We were confident in the quality of our products, but obtaining recognition from industry experts was crucial. Winning awards not only instils confidence in consumers, but also assures them that they are purchasing a product of exceptional quality."

Mariae Hackett Co-Founder/Owner Dapur Mariae

"It’s important to show on pack just how good our products are, and what says quality better than a Quality Food Award."

David Lennox, Head Development Chef, Iceland

The process of judging products is very thorough and done by leading industry experts with years of experience. Even if you don’t win an award the feedback you receive is impartial and extremely useful.

Steve Jackson, Sales Director, DJM Food Solutions

Winning a Q award was an extremely proud moment for us – to be recognised by such an esteemed panel of judges in such a competitive category has been a real win for the business!

Joe Snow, Director, Just Wholefoods

Winning the Quality Food Awards is such a boost for our Sales Team as it makes their job so much easier having this industry leading award to show off! We’ve now become the first SME to win 4 years in a row, which is just mind-blowing, and we’re going to keep entering more products to try and get the logo on pack!

Julianne Ponan Owner Creative Nature

We received such a positive response from Fused customers and retail buyers when we shared the news that we won a Quality Food Award. The Quality logo gives small food businesses credibility in a busy space. Since winning this award we are able to connect with Fused customers in-store and online by sharing the Quality logo on in-store displays, product labels and social media platforms.

Fiona Uyema CEO & Founder Fused by Fiona Uyema

Winning a Quality Food Award is a great way to thank all teams involved in creation, assure our retail partners and equally great way to turn customer heads in a positive way. Winning an award improves sales, feel good factor and everlasting happiness!

Jason Danciger Managing Director UK & Ireland Hana Group

Entering awards not only boosts credibility but also provides an opportunity to showcase your product to a wider audience and gain invaluable feedback to enhance its quality and appeal. We encourage all the small businesses we support to enter.

Shauna McFall, Seasons of the Glens

"We were confident in the quality of our products, but obtaining recognition from industry experts was crucial. Winning awards not only instils confidence in consumers, but also assures them that they are purchasing a product of exceptional quality."

Mariae Hackett Co-Founder/Owner Dapur Mariae