Colman's Q & A

We’ve been working with local farmers for over 200 years to craft products with full-on flavour, so we know that the best flavour comes from British produce.

That’s why our fresh mint and mustard are grown and harvested in East Anglia.

That’s why the British Bramley apples in our Apple Sauce are picked from orchards in Northern Ireland, Kent and Wisbech.

This also means we’re uniquely placed to understand the threat faced by local farmers, who need more people to buy their products.

So, we stand for locally sourced produce that hasn’t travelled for thousands of miles; we stand for knowing where our food comes from; we stand for livestock that is reared to the highest welfare standards.    

 

At Colman’s we’re all about British produce, that’s locally sourced and of course full of flavour.

This includes British meat, but not just any old meat.

It has to be the right meat; meat that’s of the highest quality and reared to the best welfare standards.

We know that the full-on flavour of British meat is even better with a dollop of Colman’s.

As people look to meat alternatives or buy imported produce, British meat farmers are having a pretty tough time, so we’re encouraging everyone to support them.

Choose British meat.

Choose full-on flavour.

Choose Colman’s.

 

We know we’re not perfect, but we’re on a journey to source as many of our ingredients as possible from the UK.

We’re proud to already source our free-range eggs, mustard seeds, mint, apple and parsley from the UK, and we’re working hard to find the rest of our ingredients closer to home too. Sometimes this isn’t possible, like in the case of cranberries, who, like most of us, don’t like the weather over here.  

 

As well as trying to source more of our own ingredients from Britain, we are encouraging people to make sure all the food on their plates is British too.

We’re promoting British food and farming more broadly through partnerships with the National farmers Union (NFU) and Red Tractor.  

We are in process of certifying our own products (Mint and Apple sauce) with Red Tractor certification – meaning our ingredients are 100% British.

We will support NFU trade shows with Colman’s products because we know for example the best of British lamb pairs perfectly with the best of British mint.