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a detailed review of its egg sourcing
strategy, which included consultation
with suppliers, industry experts and
other key stakeholders. The move is
the latest initiative designed to ensure
Tesco sources products in a sustainable
way. Tesco recently launched its Fair
For Farmers Guarantee for fresh milk,
which demonstrates how every own
label pint of milk helps support British
dairy farmers. Tesco has also introduced
guaranteed high value contracts for
British potato growers, and sustainable
farming programmes for lamb farmers
and producers of cheese. Earlier this
year the supermarket launched new fresh
produce ranges, including a number of
Farm Brands and its Perfectly Imperfect
range, which allows Tesco to take more
fresh produce from British growers, up
to 95% of their crop. Tesco has also
pledged to source more of the seafood it
offers customers in a sustainable way, in
partnership with the Marine Stewardship
Council.
Tesco has also announced all the
cocoa required for its own label chocolate
products sold in the UK will be from
Rainforest Alliance Certified sources by
the end of 2018. and ensure the cocoa
used in other Tesco UK products, such as
biscuits, cakes, desserts and cereals, will
be responsibly sourced by the same date
Reaping rewards
For heat freaks, the world's hottest chilli
pepper, the Carolina Reaper, has gone on
sale in Tesco stores across the UK. If you
thought the notorious Komodo Dragon -
a chilli pepper launched last year by Tesco
- was hot stuff then just wait till you try
the Carolina Reaper, officially the hottest
chilli pepper in the world according to the
Guinness Book Of Records, measuring
an average 1.5 million Scoville units*,
about 400 times hotter than a jalapeno,
the chilli pepper commonly used on spicy
take away or supermarket made pizzas.
Tesco chilli pepper buyer Phoebe
Burgess said, "The Carolina Reaper is
absolute meltdown material - it's one for
hot food connoisseurs. Despite it being
astonishingly hot it also has a wonderful
fruity taste. Only a sliver is needed to add
exciting flavour to your favourite curry. Last
year the Komodo Dragon became our
most popular chilli pepper ever and since
then we've been inundated with requests
from customers to see if we could go one
better. Thanks to the growing skills of our
chilli producer, we've done that."
The Carolina Reaper is being grown
by the UK's largest producer of chilli
peppers, Salvatore Genovese, whose
seven acre farm is in Bedfordshire. He
started growing chilli peppers 15 years
ago after he took over his parents'
cucumber business. Since then, chilli
peppers have become so popular that
he now grows about one million, or 15
tonnes, each week just to satisfy UK
demand.
Get happy, snappers!
The Pink Lady Food Photographer of
the Year 2017 is now underway. Now
open for entries, this year's awards will
be judged by food writer and reviewer
Jay Rayner, David Loftus (Jamie Oliver's
photographer), Thomas Gerwers
(Chairman, TIPA, Germany) and Paul
Burrows (Editor, Camera magazine,
Australia).
Andy Macdonald, Managing Director
of Pink Lady Apples UK, says, "In just six
years, we have seen the Awards develop
into such an amazing International event,
with hugely qualified judges from the
world of photography and food, and
from all corners of the globe wishing to
be involved, all of which demonstrates
the importance of the awards. Last year
we received entries from more than 60
countries and a staggering 30,000 mouthwatering images have
been entered
into the competition since its inception.
These Awards are going from strength
to strength." Opposite page: last year's
winner, Mark Benham (UK) Flour Frenzy.
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