Auckland-based Heather's Big Fat Hen Marmalade Making Company Marmalade soars in popularity.
Wednesday 22 April 2015, 3:20PM
By Media PA
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Move over marmite, there is new breakfast spread that is quickly becoming a Kiwi favourite – Marmalade.
Partly due to the success of the recent Paddington Bear Movie, Marmalade from –Auckland-based Heather’s Big Fat Hen Marmalade Making Company Of New Zealand is a delicious way to start your day.
Paddington Bear's taste for marmalade has created a renaissance for the breakfast table favourite.
Waitrose, a top English supermarket, believes the spike in the sales of Seville oranges for marmalade making is certainly due to the recent film about Paddington Bear.
A spokesman for Waitrose says: 'Sales of the oranges have gone up by 20 per cent compared with this time last year, which suggests more people are picking up their jam pans and thermometers to create their own marmalade.” New Zealand is sure to follow suit with the trend.
Most people think of marmalade as a bitter, sweet, chunky-textured, English spread, but the team at Heather’s Big Fat Hen Marmalade Making Company have been creatively working away at coming up with new and innovative flavours.
“We are going to make the planet’s most exotic suite of marmalade flavours. They are going to include; chocolate marmalade, habanero marmalade, mojito marmalade and gin and tonic marmalade,” says Tony Vercauteren, the founder of Heather’s Big Fat Hen Marmalade Making Company.
Using only the freshest and the best products for their marmalade, the Heather’s Big Fat Hen Marmalade Making Company range will reflect the finest fruits available each season.
The makers of Heather's Big Fat Hen Marmalade have been supplying marmalades and jams to New Zealand’s top hotels since last century. “I enjoy products where you can taste the natural ingredients and Heather’s Big Fat Hen Marmalade does this. It tastes like the scraping of an orange peel should taste like," says Nick Honeyman, executive chef at the Sofitel Hotel in the Auckland Viaduct
Heather’s Big Fat Hen Marmalade Making Company uses the flesh and peels from oranges and lemons to make a delicious citrus fruit preserve. It provides an assortment of nutritional benefits, complementing your diet with vitamins and keeping your fat, calorie and sodium intake low. “The peel is what gives marmalade its characteristic flavour. It is a good source of dietary fibre, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium and iron,” adds Tony.
There are 20 times more antioxidants in 1g of marmalade than in your ordinary glass of orange juice. Marmalade does not add many calories to toast, baked goods or other recipes it is used in. Each 1-tbsp. serving of marmalade contains only 49 calories.
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