86 ANNUAL DIRECTORY 2018 NATURAL SUGARS (AUCKLAND) In April 2009, three entrepreneurs saw a gap in the market for a commodity specialist for sugar and edible oil to provide a high level of customer service by way of market information, logistic excellence, strong relationships, added value strategic alliances and flexibility. So Natural Sugars was born…a company that sells commodities expertly and is respected in the market. With food-based commodities, quality and continuity of supply is of utmost importance, the company says. With supply relationships going back decades and multiple storage locations across New Zealand, the company delivers sugar and oil across the supply chain, including industrial, food service and retail. “We are the largest importer of sugar into New Zealand and a significant edible oil player. We now supply many different markets including New Zealand, Australia, Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, Micronesia, Rarotonga, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti, Vanuatu and Tonga.” www.naturalsugars.co.nz TE ATATU TOASTED MUESLI (AUCKLAND) Te Atatu Toasted is a locally-produced wholefood cereal range, made only with natural ingredients, low in sugar, salt and refined ingredients, and free of preservatives, artificial colourings and flavours. Owner Clare Robinson has made her own muesli for years because she could never find an everyday muesli she actually liked. Cereals, she says, are often bulked out with low nutritional ingredients like highly refined barley, wheat, rice and corn, and have high sugar and salt levels. “We can easily chomp our way through four teaspoons of sugar each morning, and that is just the cereal – no toppings,” she says. “We want to lead the charge back to making and eating real food that’s delicious and affordable.” www.teatatutoasted.co.nz SOIL, FOOD AND SOCIETY(NEW ZEALAND) Interest in a free-to-use science teaching tool, which draws on the story of where food comes from, food production and the role of primary industry in New Zealand is starting to flourish across the education sector, with more than 1600 primary and intermediate teachers plus home educators having visited the online research and intending to implement its lessons this year. The tool applies the theme of ‘growing’, to bring to life fun scientific experiments and promote critical thinking amongst Year 5 to 8 students. Project manager Ralph Springett says quality open education resources with a New Zealand context are hard to find. This project is funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Sustainable Farming Fund, the Fertiliser Quality Council, DairyNZ, Federated Farmers, Horticulture NZ, Core Education, House of Science, Ravensdown, Ballance Agri-Nutrients, Irrigation New Zealand and NZ Young Farmers. www.soilfoodsociety.online
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