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Natural and Preserved Foods

Honey and Apicultural Products

Edible products in which honey or another apicultural food remains the principal tasting identity.

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Natural and Preserved Foods

Fresh and Minimally Processed Fruit and Vegetables

Fruit, vegetables, fungi, and edible plant products presented fresh or with only preparation that preserves their fresh sensory identity.

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Natural and Preserved Foods

Sweet Preserves, Syrups and Sweet Spreads

Sweet preserves, table syrups, and sweet spreads whose principal experience is spoonable, pourable, spreadable, gelled, pulped, piece-containing, or concentrated sweetness with a recognisable ingredient identity.

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Natural and Preserved Foods

Preserved, Pickled and Fermented Fruit and Vegetables

Fruit, vegetables, fungi, and related plant foods preserved in juice, brine, syrup, oil, acid, or their own fermented medium while retaining a recognisable ingredient or piece identity.

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Natural and Preserved Foods

Herbs, Spices, Salts and Seasonings

Concentrated aromatic, pungent, salty, or flavour-building products intended to season food rather than be consumed as a normal portion on their own.

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Grains, Bakery and Snacks

Bread, Flour and Baking Mixes

Bread-led products and grain inputs whose intended identity is expressed through a baked staple or a standard bake prepared from the submitted mix.

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Grains, Bakery and Snacks

Cakes, Pastries and Biscuits

Sweet or lightly savoury baked products in which crumb, lamination, snap, filling, or baked richness defines the eating experience.

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Grains, Bakery and Snacks

Chocolate and Confectionery

Chocolate, sugar confectionery, and sweet pieces whose pleasure depends on flavour release, melt, chew, snap, aeration, or filling balance.

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Grains, Bakery and Snacks

Snacks, Nuts, Seeds, Bars and Breakfast Cereals

Portionable snack foods and breakfast cereals whose identity is expressed through direct eating or a simple declared cereal service, including crisp, puffed, roasted, clustered, extruded, dried, flaked, or bar-shaped products.

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Grains, Bakery and Snacks

Rice, Grains, Pasta, Noodles and Pulses

Staple grain, pasta, noodle, pulse, and grain-like products assessed after careful cooking, rehydration, or preparation.

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Dairy, Fats and Condiments

Cheese and Cheese-Style Products

Dairy and non-dairy products presented and consumed primarily as cheese, with texture, maturation, salting, and flavour release central to the experience.

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Dairy, Fats and Condiments

Milk, Cultured Products and Dairy-Style Products

Pourable, spoonable, cultured, creamy, or dairy-style foods whose primary identity is milk-like, yogurt-like, cream-like, or cultured rather than cheese or dessert.

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Dairy, Fats and Condiments

Chilled and Frozen Desserts

Sweet desserts served chilled, frozen, semi-frozen, or at a defined softened state where temperature strongly shapes flavour and texture.

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Dairy, Fats and Condiments

Oils, Fats and Butter

Edible oils and fats whose aroma, flavour, coating, melt, and finish are assessed as the principal product experience.

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Dairy, Fats and Condiments

Sauces, Dressings, Condiments, Vinegars, Dips and Savoury Spreads

Products used to season, coat, dip, dress, accompany, or spread, including acid, savoury, fermented, emulsified, and concentrated forms.

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Non-Alcoholic Beverages

Tea, Coffee, Cocoa and Infusions

Dry, concentrated, portioned, or prepared products whose intended identity is revealed through brewing, infusion, extraction, dissolution, or a declared prepared serving.

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Non-Alcoholic Beverages

Water

Still or sparkling drinking water in which water character, mineral impression, cleanliness, texture, and finish are the principal experience.

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Non-Alcoholic Beverages

Non-Alcoholic Ready-to-Drink Beverages and Mixers

Non-alcoholic liquids served without material preparation, including still, carbonated, juice-led, fermented-style, energy, sports, and mixer products.

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Alcoholic Beverages

Wine and Wine-Style Drinks

Grape and other wine-style drinks whose identity centres on vinous aroma, acidity, sweetness, tannin or phenolic structure, alcohol integration, and finish.

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Alcoholic Beverages

Beer, Cider and Other Fermented Alcoholic Drinks

Fermented alcoholic drinks whose enjoyment depends on fermentation character, malt, grain, fruit, botanical, acidity, bitterness, carbonation, body, and finish.

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Alcoholic Beverages

Spirits, Liqueurs and Alcoholic Mixed Drinks

Distilled, compounded, sweetened, aromatised, or mixed alcoholic drinks where alcohol integration and concentrated flavour are central to the experience.

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Proteins and Composite Foods

Meat, Poultry, Game, Eggs and Savoury Protein Alternatives

Animal and alternative savoury protein products assessed as a primary protein portion, whether fresh, cooked, cured, smoked, minced, formed, preserved, or ready to eat.

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Proteins and Composite Foods

Fish, Shellfish, Seaweed and Marine Foods

Aquatic and marine foods presented as a primary fish, shellfish, mollusc, crustacean, seaweed, roe, cured, preserved, or seafood-style experience.

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Proteins and Composite Foods

Prepared Meals, Soups and Composite Dishes

Products intended to be experienced as a composed dish, meal, soup, side dish, filled preparation, or multi-component serving rather than as one ingredient or accompaniment.

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