Great Taste Real Bread winners

Published: Wednesday 22 September 2021

Of 14,113 products entered in the Great Taste Awards 2021, only 218 received a Great Taste 3-star award. The organisers state that these are: ‘extraordinarily tasty foods – less than 2% of products are awarded a 3-star each year – don’t leave the shop without buying it!’

This year’s 3-star recipients included these Real Bread Campaign supporters:

Karaway - fruity rye
Rye Bakery - croissants
Wessex Mill - tomato and garlic bread flour, and six seed bread flour

Judges awarded a Great Taste 2-star to 1,138 products for being ‘above and beyond delicious.’ They included these Real Bread Campaign supporters:

Felin Talgarth – Five types of flour
Karaway – Grandmother’s Bread, and Pumpkin Bread
Seasons Bakery - Rosemary and Raisin sourdough
Shipton Mill – Six types of flour
Wessex Mill – Five types of flour

Many more Campaign supporters created products that were amongst the 4,027 awarded a Great Taste 1-star for ‘delivering fantastic flavour.’

Real Bread Campaign coordinator Chris Young, who was one of 355 judges involved in one or more of the 86 days of blind tasting, said: “Well done to every Campaign supporter, and all of those other Real Bread bakers and additive-free millers, who received Great Taste Awards. Extra congratulations go to each of those who picked up 3-star awards, meaning that several tables of judges had to agree that the product deserved it.”

The full lists of awards can be found on the Great Taste Awards website.

Great Taste 3-star award-winning products will be tasted again to select regional Golden Fork Trophy winners and the Great Taste Supreme Champion 2021, which will be announced on Sunday 17 October

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Chris Young
Campaign Coordinator
Real Bread Campaign

Chris Young has coordinated the Real Bread Campaign since March 2009. In addition to lobbying for an Honest Crust Act of better loaf composition, labelling and marketing laws; he created and runs Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise promoting therapeutic/social benefits and bread making; the No Loaf Lost surplus reduction initiative; as well as Lessons in Loaf and Bake Your Lawn for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook and Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated the London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards. Chris has pulled on his judge’s wig for BOOM Awards, The Cateys, The Great Taste Awards, The Scottish Bread Championship and The World Bread Awards. In 2017, The School of Artisan Food honoured Chris with its first Fellowship.

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