YOU CAN’T CALL YOURSELF A FOODIE UNTIL YOU’VE TRIED THESE….
Are you one of those people who thinks they’ve travelled to every far-flung corner in the food world? Perhaps you know someone who’s always flaunting their all-encompassing food knowledge? Show them this list, and see if they’re all mouth!
Here’s just a small selection of the unique gourmet ingredients and healthy global treats we offer – how many have you tried?
Full of minerals and amino acids, these flavoursome little berries (also known as ‘Inca Berries’) are from Central and South America, and have a deep and delightful citrus tang.
This makes them a wonderfully exotic addition to muesli, desserts and trail mixes – but they’re maybe even better munched on their own!
Full of minerals, unsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants, the best thing about this Pumpkin Seed Oil is its utter deliciousness.
This deep dark green wonderfood has an almost narcotic lusciousness and is absolutely brilliant as part of a salad dressing, or drizzled straight over freshly-steamed vegetables.
Preserved lemons are one of the core ingredients of the Moroccan tagine, and are used widely across the Middle East in an array of dishes.
They have an addictive piquancy, and are brilliant with just about everything, including roast potatoes, rice dishes and as a stuffing ingredient.
These squidgy ovals of bliss are at the front line between fruit and fudge, and have an intense toffee/caramel moreishness which makes them the perfect snack.
Not only that – they’re an incredibly versatile cooking ingredient, the perfect binder in cake recipes and a superb source of healthy, slow-release energy.
If you like your chillies flavoursome but don’t want your head blown off with the heat, look no further than these fantastic Mexican chillies (also known as ‘rattle chillies’).
Their deep, savoury, smoky flavour makes them a magnificent addition to soups, stews and dips – and no Mexican marinade should be without one!
Made using the finest organic Sicilian pistachios, this intense, deep, silky pesto is equally perfect stirred into hot linguine for a luxury pasta dish, spread on toast, incorporated into pastries or spooned over ice cream for an opulent dessert.
Not only that – the pistachio is one of the healthiest nuts around, full of protein, vitamins, minerals and fibre!
These little powerhouses of fibre, beneficial fats and minerals are the perfect munchie snack to give you a boost when you’re on the go.
Not only do they taste like the best, creamiest coconut – they also have absolutely brilliant antibacterial and prebiotic properties. It’s not often something so good for you tastes this great!
Spanish saffron is wonderful, but saffron from Iran is known amongst chefs and bon viveurs as the finest on the planet.
Laboriously hand-harvested from Crocus sativus flowers, it lends a fabulous deep yellowy-orange colour to any food, and can be used to give a majestic, floral, honeyish accent to showpiece dishes.
One of the key elements in much of Middle Eastern cooking, sumac is a lip-smackingly zingy spice, giving a citrus-like tang to food.
Often sprinkled on top of hummus to add an extra dimension, sumac also has excellent anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties.
This wonderfully freaky food is eaten in sweet and savoury forms, and made from pounded glutinous rice.
When fried, it puffs up, giving the outside an appetising crispiness, while the inside is gloriously squidgy. It’s equally good with a shake of soy sauce or a squeeze of honey, and showered in sesame seeds.
Truffle-hunting isn’t the sole domain of pipe-smoking French/Italian farmers with obedient pigs! These luscious, knobbly delicacies can also be found in English woodlands.
This is a fantastic ‘finishing oil’ for drizzling, and is made from the finest Black Summer Truffles. A few drops over scrambled eggs or pasta will take things into a far superior and infinitely more opulent dimension!
A simple and moreish dessert on their own, these little crunchy balls of wonder are freeze-dried to retain their shape and nutrients.
It feels like you’re eating sweets, but you’re actually filling your body with superb nutrition. Amongst other goodies, there’s a huge amount of Vitamin C in blueberries, and very strong evidence they contribute to arterial and heart health.
And for when you've tried everything....
Been too much of a foodie? Stock up on Miracle Noodles – this range of pasta and noodles has, stunningly, zero carbohydrates, and will fill you up handsomely, but with an amount of calories that barely makes it out of single figures per packet.
Made from the dried fibre of the Asian konjac plant, they’ll keep hunger at bay until your next feast!
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