If you suffer from a food allergy or intolerance and need Free-From products including gluten-free food, check out these winning products to buy online.
We love Kent & Fraser's hand-made gluten-free collection of cakes, biscuits, cookies and shortbread, especially the double choc chip cake, and the melt-in-the-mouth wheat-, gluten-, egg- and soya-free stilton and walnut savoury biscuits. Buy from independent shops, delis nationwide and Harrods.
Read on for more organic and specialist producers, results from specialist food allergy magazine Food Matters' FreeFrom Food Awards.
Winner of the Fair Trophy for the Best FreeFrom Food 2009
Healthy Cake Company organic carrot and raisin cake
Innovation Award
Winner
Genius gluten-free white bread (pictured)
Highly Commended
Bob the Builder organic corn and rice pasta shapes
Commended
Lactofree soft white cheese
Individual Category Awards
Breakfast cereals
Winner
Barkat organic rice crunchies
Highly Commended
Bakery on Main nutty cranberry granola
Whole Earth organic cornflakes
Commended
Eat Natural toasted buckwheat pumpkin seeds, raisins and mango
Bread and bread mixes
Winner
Proceli Complet brown rice bread
Highly Commended
Droppa & Droppa mixed seed loaf
Juvela all-purpose mix
Sainsbury’s free-from ciabatta
Commended
Glutafin multi-purpose white mix
Juvela sliced white bread
Mrs Crimble’s bread mix
Roley’s teff flour bread-mix
Pasta, pizza and pizza bases
Winner
Dietary Specials pasta – mais and riso
Highly Commended
Antoinette Savill pizza bases
Barkat white rice pizza crust
Commended
Dietary Specials rigatoni with Mediterranean vegetables
Glutafin penne
Orgran rice and millet pasta
Rizopia organic brown rice penne
Sainsbury’s free-from beef lasagne
Pies, flans, sausages and sauces
Winner
Anila’s spicy korma curry sauce
Highly Commended
Droppa & Droppa Spanish tart
Richard Woodall Cumberland unsmoked pork sausages
Waitrose pork sausages
Commended
Clive’s organic vegetable chilli pie
Dietary Specials steak pie
Sauces of Choice Black cherry sauce
Savoury snacks and biscuits
Winner
Mrs Crimble’s original cheese bites
Highly Commended
Barkat plain pretzels
Clearspring organic multigrain rice cakes
Commended
Nairn’s cheese oatbakes
Tesco free-from cheese crackers
Village Bakery organic oatcakes
Cakes, muffins, sweet biscuits
Winner
Gluten Free Kitchen carrot cake
Healthy Cake Company organic carrot and raisin cake
Highly Commended
Glutafin digestive biscuits
Kallo Free to Enjoy Indulgent Biscuit Deeelights
Lazy Day Foods chocolate gingers
Lovemore Free From Foods chocolate chip cookies
Waitrose double choc muffins
Commended
Crayve’s apple muffin mix
Pure Flavour lemon drizzle mini cakes
Tesco free-from chocolate muffins
Chocolate and cereal bars
Winner
Plamil orange chocolate with cranberries
Highly Commended
Eat Natural brazils, sultana, almond and hazelnut bars
Kinnerton luxury dark chocolate egg
Village Bakery pumpkin seed and cranberry bar
Commended
BoojaBooja organic ginger truffles
D&D dark couverture chocolate egg
It’s Nut Free fudge flapjack
Sainsbury’s free-from mint crisps
Milk and yogurt
Winner
Tesco semi-skimmed goat’s milk
Highly Commended
Lactofree strawberry yoghurt
Sainsbury's sweetened fresh soya drink
Commended
Provamel fruits of the forest yoghurt
Butter, cheese and spread
Winner
Tofutti Creamy smooth original
Highly Commended
Delamere Dairy hard goat’s cheese
Pure dairy-free soya spread
Commended
Woodland’s Park goat’s butter
‘Ice creams’, puddings, desserts
Winner
Swedish Glacé Creamy Smooth Original
Highly Commended
B’Nice strawberry ice cream
BoojaBooja Stuff in a Tub maple and pecan
Gluten Free Kitchen bread and butter pudding
Commended
Almondy almond tart
Alpro long-life vanilla custard
BoojaBooja Stuff in a Tub chocolate
Christine’s sticky toffee pudding
GFree apple and mincemeat tray
OK chocolate sponge
Sainsbury’s free-from syrup pudding
Tofutti Cuties chocolate
Products made in a nut-free environment
Winner
Plamil orange chocolate with cranberries
Highly Commended
It’s Nut Free chewy oat and raisin cereal
Kinnerton luxury dark chocolate egg
Orgran vanilla cake mix
Commended
Barkat Matzo crackers
Chilly Billy apple & raspberry ice lollies
Christmas goodies
Winner
Especially Delicious Christmas cake
Highly Commended
Gluten Free Kitchen Christmas cake
Tesco Christmas pudding
Tesco mince pies
Village Bakery organic Christmas cake
Commended
Barkat Christmas pudding
Livwell iced Christmas cake
Lovemore free-from mince pies
Pure Flavour mince pies