Food & Ingredients
making the small switch to Fairtrade…
Supports producers in protecting the future of some of our most-loved foods & the planet.
Organic & Fairtrade Foods
Locally made honey; organic flour for bread-making, pastries and cakes; delicious biscuits from Doves Farm, pastas and rice; fairtrade jams, marmalade; a range of Clipper, Hampstead and Dragonfly teas (plastic-free bags), Cafe Direct, Equal Exchange and Suma coffees beans and ground plus a range of Tony’s and Divine fairtrade chocolate. You’ll love Jenipher’s Coffi a speciality single bean fair trade coffee roasted in Bridgend.
Suma Wholefoods are delicious, ethical and organic.
We stock world and local foods, various ingredients for baking and a wide range of organic spices and herbs - less common items can be ordered for you, please just ask!
Suma italian organic Bronze die cut Pasta
Our organic pasta is produced using an extrusion process that leaves a porous and rough surface, great to hold condiments such as a classic tomato sauce or one of Suma's tasty organic pasta sauces. Then it's dried slowly to preserve the nutrients and bring out the taste and aromas of the wheat. Delicious!
And now we've ditched the plastic. Our Italian organic wheat pasta is now packaged in biodegradable and recyclable paper, sourced from sustainably managed forests. Printed with water-based ink and heat-sealing lacquers without solvents. The product lasts as long as it would in plastic packaging, if stored correctly.
Suma's organic pasta is from Italy, because Italian pasta is the best in the world. It's produced using a slow drying process that uses 100% renewable energy. The farmers we use grow ancient grains, which makes them specialists and experts in all kinds of wheat, including durum wheat.
Our pasta is made using traditional methods by a co-operative bringing together over 300 member farms.
We work with some great organisations - here’s some interesting background about our main foods supplier the co-operative Suma Wholefoods:
“Imagine a workplace with no bosses, where everyone has equal pay and an equal say.
Suma Wholefoods
Well here at Suma we’ve been doing things a bit differently for over 40 years. Not only in our mission to supply everything vegetarian and sustainable, but also in how we are run.
A co-operative of ordinary people built on integrity and equality, we’re a worker co-op, a business owned and run by the nearly 200 people who work here. We don’t have any bosses or shareholders. We, Suma’s employees, set the direction of the business. Everyone has an equal say in what we do. We all get paid the same wage, take responsibility and each do a range of jobs each week, from truck driving to cooking to accounts.
It means that when you meet someone who works at Suma, you’re meeting a co-owner who knows and cares about the business. Your driver might work in accounts and product development when she’s not out on the road, so she can give you the bigger picture.
As a co-op we are more than the sum of our parts. When we come together we create something amazing.”
From: https://www.suma.coop/about/our-co-op/
Suma recipes!
Organic Herbs and Spices from Suma