October product news

Hot on the trail of "style items" like cappuccino and skinny lattes comes the latest café taste trend - flavoured coffees. Pritchitts' new range of flavoured coffee creamers, Café Éclipse, is available in three flavours - vanilla, mocha and hazelnut - to whiten and subtly flavour your brew. Unlike bottled flavouring syrups, Café Éclipse is unsweetened, allowing the consumer to adjust levels of sweetness.

Tel: 020 8290 7020

Flavoured pan-ready salmon fillets from Fairway Foodservice are an attractive fish dish alternative. Using only high-quality wild ocean fish, the salmon fillets are available in a Smokie Sweet Chilli Dusting, for a distinctive flavour, or a delicate tasting Cream Cheese and Chive Dusting. Both products are ideal for griddling, grilling or oven baking, but can also be shallow or deep-fried.

Tel: 01422 319100

Delice de France has a complete service package for caterers wishing to provide soup for their customers. The C'est Souperbe concept, at £299 plus VAT, includes two boxes of soup plus two of Pave Perene stonebaked sourdough bread, along with a 10-litre soup kettle, ladle and tongs. Delice has also added two new soup varieties to its freshly-made range. Like the rest of the soups, French onion and minestrone are available frozen in 1kg pouches.

Tel: 020 8917 9600

A healthier alternative to coating fried food in heavy oils is to spray the fry pan with Anchor Sunflower and Butter Oil Spray. Benefiting from the flavour of butter, the lightness of oil and the convenience of a spray format, both the natural and garlic flavour variants are formulated with a blend of 70 per cent sunflower oil and 30 per cent butter oil.

Tel: 01793 777772

As an alternative to the traditional Christmas lunch, iB Food's Turkey Stincotto offers a festive taste with a Mediterranean flavour. Gently cooked to a secret recipe and enhanced with fresh Italian herbs, it can be served up on a bed of creamy polenta or incorporated into more creative recipes. Its 18-month shelf life also makes it an ideal store cupboard essential. Average portion size is 350g.

Tel: 0800 252522

Dropping your nibbles or spilling your tipple can be a thing of the past with Dornberger's new buffet plate. It holds a glass within its rim, allowing more freedom to enjoy the food, drink and party. The 21cm diameter plate can hold a variety of glass styles and is made from high-quality white porcelain, so will complement any decor or theme. It is dishwasher, microwave and freezer proof and is priced at £3.35.

Tel: 020 7251 0240

Maynard Scotts offers two new freezer-to-table dessert creations, Raspberry & Strawberry Melody and Chocolate Challenge. The ice-cool temptations use a moist chocolate brownie base and are covered with mousse, swirled with sweet sauce and topped with chocolate curls and can be on permanent standby in the freezer. The individual pre-cut portions can be served as required, cutting down on wastage.

Tel: 01823 257 922

Frozen Butter Rosettes, from IDB & Co save time and guarantee freshness. Available as eight-petal rosettes, Butter Rosettes are available in four varieties - salted, unsalted, organic and herb & garlic - and are made from "Summer" milk, which is given by cattle grazing on fresh grass. Not only do they retain their shape, are convenient and use the minimum of packaging, they can also be personalised with the branding of your choice.

Tel: 020 8402 6079

Forget the weedy chipolata, make way for the Unger 8oz Cumberland Ring. The plate-filling spiral sausage contains no artificial colours or mechanically-recovered meat and is supplied frozen. The 12-incher is held together by a wooden skewer, guaranteeing an excellent performance during shallow frying, grilling or oven cooking. They are packed 18 to the case and the price to caterers is approximately £1 per sausage.

Tel: 0161 868 6847

Macphie delivers its first ever branded frozen foodservice range. Consisting of savoury, pasta and ethnic sauces and rich soups, the fresh products are available in sachet format, packed in 24 x 75g clear pouches (savoury), 200g single portion (pasta) and 24 x 100g or 24 x 150g (Global Village ethnic). The fresh frozen soup range comes in 250g sachets in flavours such as Basil and Orange, Thai Spiced Parsnip and Rustic French Onion.

More new products...​

• Fruitier jam, creamier sauces and more tomato-ey ketchup can now grace your table. The Coronet brand, from foodservice supplier 3663, has been redeveloped and extensively taste-tested. The range - which includes condiments, sweeteners, hot beverages and sweet and savoury biscuits - is now ideal for use front-of-house, in pubs or bars. Tel: 01494 555900
• Waiting on tables can become more time-efficient with WaiterPad. Call-Systems Technology and EPoS supplier Uniwell bring you a hand-held electronic pad which is used by waiting staff to take food and drink orders. The simple process of touching relevant options on screen with a stylus enables the order to be sent directly to the kitchen. The easy-to-use WaiterPad can also store notes about available dishes. Tel: 0800 389 5642
• Speedibake offers an additional Christmas indulgence in the shape of luxury mince pies - filled with calvados or cherries and nuts. "Seasonal" mini muffins - cranberry and orange or mincemeat - are also available.
• Discovery Foods spice things up with a new 500g catering-sized jar of sliced jalapeno chillies, which can be used in authentic Mexican dishes like nachos, fajitas and tacos or to pep up casseroles.
• Five different coffee blends and flavours, in 16g sachets, have been developed by the Nairobi Coffee and Tea Co. The popular cafetiere range includes Pure Colombian Paramillo Coffee in generous two-cup servings.
• Raw boned and rolled fresh turkey breast is one of Larderfresh's new range of fresh festive-tasting meats. Filled with succulent pork, orange and sage stuffing, the turkey breast is ready to roast and serve with a vegetable mix. With a frozen individual pannetonne for dessert, all your festive requirements are taken care of.
• For a taste of something different try Delamere Dairy's spreadable goats cheese, which comes in a 125g resealable tub. It can be served up with salmon on a bagel, mixed with cream or yogurt as a dip or dolloped on a hot baked potato.