Essential Trading is a Bristol worker co-operative established in 1971. At Essential we strive towards creating a truly ethical company, and believe this has a positive impact along the entire food chain. We wholesale, manufacture and distribute sustainable organic wholefoods across the UK and beyond. Over 6000 lines of healthy options, quality nutrition and products that all make a real difference.
... (tap for more)The word cherry refers to a fleshy fruit (drupe) that contains a single stony seed. The cherry belongs to the family Rosaceae, genus Prunus, along with almonds, peaches, plums, apricots and bird cherries. The subgenus, Cerasus, is distinguished by having the flowers in small corymbs of several together (not singly, nor in racemes), and by having a smooth fruit with only a weak groove or none along one side. The subgenus is native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in America, three in Europe, and the remainder in Asia.
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Blueberries are flowering plants of the genus Vaccinium with dark blue, purple or black berries. Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most common fruits sold as "blueberries" and are mainly native to North America. They are usually erect but sometimes prostrate shrubs varying in sise from 10cm tall to 4m tall. The flowers are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish. In commercial blueberry production, smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" (synonymous with "wild"), and the larger species as "highbush blueberries". The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen, ovate-lanceolate, and from 1 to 8cm long and 0.5 to 3.5cm broad. The fruit is a false berry 5 to 16mm diameter with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally blue on ripening. They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity. Blueberry bushes typically bear fruit from May to June though fruiting times are affected by local conditions such as altitude and latitude.
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Essential Trading is a Bristol worker co-operative established in 1971. At Essential we strive towards creating a truly ethical company, and believe this has a positive impact along the entire food chain. We wholesale, manufacture and distribute sustainable organic wholefoods across the UK and beyond. Over 6000 lines of healthy options, quality nutrition and products that all make a real difference.
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Suma is the UK's largest independent wholefood wholesaler-distributor. Specialising in vegetarian, fairly traded, organic, ethical and natural products, we also have our own successful brand of food and non-food products.
... (tap for more)Dunkertons have made organic cider and perry to Soil Association stanndards since 1988. They were the first in Herefordshire
... (tap for more)Mrs Crimble's was set up over 25 years ago. Long before the days of celebrity chefs having their own product range, our 'Home Recipe Biscuits' were endorsed by Fanny Craddock - then known as the 'First Lady of Food' - who said, 'they're the very best'.
... (tap for more)Cheddar Natural Spring Water is extracted from the source of our spring within the intricate cave network of the Mendip hills at Cheddar, Somerset, providing an unlimited supply of natural water
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