KFDC News

  • Charlie Fermor Founder of Freddie's Farm

    14/3/25 Freddie's Farm founder explains his patented production technique used to minimise the levels of free sugars in their fruit snacks...

    Charlie Fermor, co-founder of Freddie’s Farm, explains in The Grocer how he has pioneered a revolutionary way of producing their fruity snacks, that preserves the bond between the fibre and the natural sugars in the fruit, minimising both the level of processing and the free sugar content of their snacks…

  • Fruit sugars and free sugars

    10/2/25 "The government's nutritional labelling is misleading and damaging"

    In this recently published article in Health Journal, Laurie Fermor, founder of KFDC member brand Freddie’s Farm, argues that the government’s nutritional traffic light labelling is failing to differentiate between free sugars and natural sugars. Its simplistic approach is at best misleading and at worst damaging the health of our children...

  • HFSS UPF Junk Food Kids

    25/9/24 KFDC Launch Announcement

    The Grocer kindly announced the launch of the Kid's Food and Drink Collective. Take a look at the article to read an interview with our founder Jess Mackenzie, and find out more about what motivated her to start the KFDC...

  • toddler eating

    12/8/24 Speciality Food Magazine

    Several KFDC members were interviewed in a recent article published by Speciality Food Magazine entitled: "Kids Food - A growing category you need to know about". The KFDC even got a mention, see if you can spot it!