NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY  

Dessert

ECOTROPHELIA UNITED KINGDOM 2023 - BRONZE

Nature's Bliss

UNITED KINGDOM - 2023

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This product is an Ambient Chocolate Dessert Kit, consisting of three components; Chocolate Powder Mix, Freeze dried strawberries and dehydrated bananas and cinnamon-flavoured croutons. Natures Bliss is a premium, indulgent, and high-quality product aimed at the adult and working professionals target market. This product requires the consumer to simply add their choice of milk or plant-based alternative, whisk and finish by placing on the toppings.

Eco-Co play their part in protecting the planet and its people. With their focus on sustainability, Nature’s Bliss uses wasted ingredients from the Food Industry. This product uses potato flakes from wasted potatoes in French fry production, Freeze-dried fruits made from “wonky/unwanted” produce and croutons which have been created from surplus bread crusts from Greencore’s Sandwich production (Sourced from a factory where 5 tonnes are wasted per year). Additionally, this product is ambient meaning it has a long shelf life (9 months) and does not require the use of energy for storage or transportation. As an ambient dessert kit this product will start its journey in, farm shops, markets, and independent businesses. In the next few years, it will be sold in the retail industry with the baking/ambient dessert section within an aisle with potential in the future to sell in the gifting category.