The Fridge
Kroodi Cheese
Kroodi was created by Claudia Cani; an Italian based in Singapore. Passionate about plant-based food she left the corporate world to attend professional plant-based culinary courses. This led to a discovery of a new world she fell in love with. After experimenting in both Bali and at home with family and friends she took the leap and set up Kroodi. Kroodi fulfils Claudia’s continuous curiosity about food innovation, environment consciousness and her desire to share it.
HIC Cold Pressed Juice, Singapore
HIC was founded in December 2013 with the mission to make premium and nutritious cold pressed juices easily accessible to working urbanites islandwide. HIC juices can work as either a supplement to a healthy diet or as a 1- to 5-day routine cleansing programme.
Using cold press technology imported from California, HIC is able to extract close to five times more nutrients from the organic produce as compared to a conventional juicer to ensure that you get all the benefits that each nutrient provides. HIC is also the first juice company with an AVA-licensed, halal-certified central juice kitchen that is ISO 22000 certified in providing the safest and highest quality of juices in Singapore.
With the vision of making life simpler, healthier and happier for all, HIC has since expanded its product offerings to meet to the lifestyles of time-starved, health-conscious urbanites.
Remedy Kombucha
Remedy Kombucha is a fizzy live-cultured drink that’s damn tasty and actually healthy. This kombucha is chock-full of live cultures and organic acids that are good for your gut health and overall wellbeing. Better still, Remedy is naturally free from sugar – it even has an official tick of approval from I Quit Sugar to prove it.
Remedy is made the old-school way, fermented in small batches using a long-aged brewing process which removes all of the sugar and turns it into healthy live cultures and organic acids.
When kombucha is fermented naturally and kept raw, unpasteurised and unfiltered, like they do at Remedy, it contains healthy, living, good bacteria, or live cultures. Every bottle of Remedy Kombucha contains literally billions of these microorganisms. Live cultures are great for gut health. Read more about this on our blog.
Organic acids, also known as short-chain fatty acids (SFCA) are produced during the natural fermentation or brewing process of making kombucha. You probably aren’t prepared for the words “acid” or “fatty” to be good, but these little treasures are a powerhouse of goodness with proven health benefits.
Remedy Kombucha is teeming with naturally occurring polyphenols – nutrients which are rich in antioxidants to help the body fight illness and slow down the ageing process. These polyphenols – which come from the organic green and black tea that form the base of this brew – also play an important role as a prebiotic to increase the ratio of beneficial bacteria in your gut.
Raglan Coconut Yoghurt, New Zealand
Meet your new best friend to do breakfast with! When Mr Coconut decided it was time to go dairy-free due to allergies, Mrs Coconut started experimenting with making coconut yoghurt in her kitchen. It took time to get it right (and lots of taste-testing on Mr Coconut’s part!) but soon breakfast became their favourite part of the day.
Locals started asking if they could have some too. The crew of coconut lovers grew and grew. Before you could say coconut-yoghurt-is-the-best-
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Vasse Virgin, Margaret River, Western Australia
It’s hard to drag me out of the Vasse Virgin factory, where I have spent many an afternoon testing and tasting their delicious gourmet products, as well as their beautiful body product range. This video was taken during a visit to Vasse Virgin in October 2016, and I hope it gives you a great feel for the origin of these lovely products.
Louis & Edwina Scherini
Vasse Virgin is a delightful, family run business in the heart of Margaret River, Western Australia. The company was established when Louis and Edwina Scherini’s children were diagnosed with eczema and advised by doctors against the use of soap or shampoo, Inspired to create a safe, chemical free alternative for their children they soon realised the only way they could guarantee that the products were natural and healthy was to make their own. The Scherini’s began experimenting in their kitchen first discovered the healing powers of extra virgin olive oil, and a new soap product was born made with extra virgin olive oil as the main base,100% pure essential oils and plant extracts.
With the product proving so popular, ‘Vasse Virgin’ became the new brand and the use of olives was further expanded to include a gourmet food range. Under the watchful eye of a specialist chef, Vasse Virgin's range of delicious olive oil gourmet food products made their début including estate grown and Western Australian olives extra virgin olive oils, balsamic vinegars and fruit vinaigrettes and a range of condiments designed to showcase both the olive and olive oil.
Olive oil has long been relied upon for its uses in both cooking and food. Amongst the many benefits, olive oil offers protection against heart disease by controlling cholesterol levels and it doesn’t stop there. The Vasee Virgin chef continues the company’s ethos in producing high quality, natural products without the use of any artificial additives, preservatives or flavourings.
Black Cow Deluxe Cheddar Cheese, West Dorset, England
Situated on England’s West Dorset coast Black Cow Deluxe Cheddar, originating from West Dorset, England, is a unique cheese made from the same milk that is used to make Black Cow Pure Milk Vodka which we also stock. The cheese is a pale yellow, mature, farmhouse cheddar encapsulated in a layer of black wax. The smooth texture and occasional crystal crunch give way to the perfectly mature, sweet, nutty flavour of this exceptional Dorset cheese.
Meredith Dairy
I had a fantastic trip down to Melbourne in early 2015 where I had the pleasure of meeting up with the Meredith team and hearing first hand all about their farm. Meredith Dairy is a seriously impressive enterprise, where they have made it their mission to provide quality-minded customers with reasonably priced, excellent sheep and goat milk products.