Wild Australian ingredients - The Antidote for Modern Foods, Me-too Products and Boring Menus

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• Click here for more on Australian ingredients as foods and natural flavours eg Wattleseed, lemon myrtle sprinkle, Alpine pepper, paperbark etc and as ingredients for cosmetics eg grass lily, quandong kernel extract, Kakadu plum, jalbi and more.

• Click here for Australian recipes and more on our emerging Australian cuisine eg Wattleseed pavlova or barramundi in paperbark or Coconut and Lemon myrtle brulée

• Click here for Australian functional ingredients eg our natural antimicrobial, Herbal-Active®, bioactive flavours eg forest anise, fruit spice, Kakadu Complex®

Australian menu ideas and specifically our Skews® or the 13 part TV series on Australian cooking, Dining Downunder

• or our blog on recent news items, new products and industry happenings. Click here for a list of all my articles on a relatively wide variety of topics but all to do with Australian food.


Cherikoff Australian ingredients include spices, herbs, fruits, seeds, nuts, sauces, splashes, seasonings, syrups, infused oils, extracts, concentrates and more. Used in authentic Australian recipes these unique flavours are defining Australian food and help chefs and home cooks to create what is becoming and emerging authentic Australian cuisine.

Vic Cherikoff is regarded as a pioneer of the native Australian food industry and has nearly 30 years of experience in commercializing wild food species, taking them from the wild as bush tucker or bush foods to developing them into sophisticated, versatile, authentic Australian foods, beverages and functional ingredients. Where else would you go except to the market leader for quality, range, volumes and innovation of Australian ingredients and professionalism of service?

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Australian food

To begin exploring this website on Australian food, the 3 links below might help:

1. Cherikoff Rare Spices - our retail range for creative cooks and foodies

The first is on our growing Vic Cherikoff, The Essence of Australia branded retail range (follow this link to go to our on-line store). Here you will find our food ingredients, cookbooks and also Kakadu Complex®), a new Super Food beverage which is beginning to make waves across Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Europe. We urge you to try some and feel the difference in your health and vitality.

Cherikoff Rare Spices


Give your own familiar recipes a uniquely Australian flavour with our distinctively delicious, nutritiously enticing herbs, spices, fruits, seeds and products made from them. It is really easy to add a sprinkle or a dash of a wild food product to transform a dish and add that Wow! factor.

Click here for our white paper on 10 good reasons to shop on-line.


2. Cherikoff Food Services - our professional chefs' range

This second link below will take you to our professional chef pages but anyone who loves new flavours, foods and creative cooking can start learning about Vic Cherikoff Food Services' products here. Our on -line store also caters for wholesale purchasers so it's easy to get commercial sized quantities of Lemon myrtle sprinkle, Wattleseed, Alpine pepper, Riberry confit and the other products in our wide range of catering ingredients.

Cherikoff Food Service


Chefs and restaurateurs - fill your outlet with customers who rave about your food. What better way to promote your establishment than word of mouth and becoming part of a global trend exploring the newest flavors in the food industry. Download our current Product Glossary.
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3. Cherikoff Bioactives - functional ingredients and flavors for manufacturers

Or visit our manufacturing ingredient division (Cherikoff Bioactives). We supply the more discerning leading brands you see on supermarket shelves and in specialty stores, companies which realize the competitive edge a uniquely Australian food twist brings to a product range. Here you will also find information on our cosmetic ingredients and functionals such as Herbal-Active® and HerBev® which are natural flavours with a strong antimicrobial action when used in low concentrations in appropriate foods, beverages and cosmetics. These are manufactured by Cherikoff Bioactives under licence from Cherikoff Global Pty Ltd.

Cherikoff Bioactives


Our unique Australian ingredients give you a competitive edge. Our flavors will create interest; re-vitalise existing products; or create entirely new ones; and in the process bring in plenty of new customers.
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And be sure to check out our other related websites:

Dining Downunder | Aussie Chefs


Australian Food News


Vic Cherikoff blog and recent news



Recipes, health and nutritional information - all on wild foods - 30 April 12

My question to you is how can I help more?

Are you interested in more recipes using wild foods?
Are the nutritional information and the health benefits useful to you?
Are you interested in losing weight easily and permanently?
Is the business side of wild foods of use to you as an affiliate or a distributor?

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Wild foods, health and a global recession - 01 April 12

This blog is not for everyone. It involves wild foods only in that my primary opportunity revolves around a wild food product but this blog has more to do with business, the economy and your personal finances and future lifestyle.

It addresses a real issue in today’s global economy and how we can each prepare for tougher times.

Imagine if you had no debts; no mortgage, no car, credit card debt or personal loans.

Think about this: Most of us earn income part-time, that is, when we work in a job or even as a small business owner, we only bring in the money 40 to 60 hours a week. Unfortunately, if we have any kind of debt we are spending full-time. Interest clicks away 24 hours a day, 7 days a week irrespective of our earnings.

So where do most people end up when they earn part-time and spend full-time?

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Resveratrol - reversing the toll - by Geroge Kowalski - 25 March 12

Kakadu Complex is extremely rich in resveratrol and since piperine (an essential oil from pepper) also in Kakadu enhances the absorption of resveratrol nearly 350% there is no better whole food source of this antioxidant than Kakadu. To put in into perspective, one bottle of Kakadu Complex delivers as much resveratrol as is in 437 bottles of red wine – that’s over 36 dozen bottles!

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Please read this, watch the video and sign the petition - 25 February 12

To my fellow Australians,

The Stand For Freedom campaign is ready to spread like wildfire and we need your support to challenge the extension of the NT Intervention for 10 more years under the Stronger Futures legislation.

Please send this email out widely to your networks.

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An interview about wild foods, nutrition and future developments - 19 February 12

I was kindly invited to be interviewed by national Australian radio personality, Margaret Throsby on ABC Classic FM recently.

The segment was well received and many listeners wanted to learn more about Kakadu Complex (although I couldn’t mention it by name on public radio) and the many benefits it delivers and why I call it the antidote to modern foods.

If you want to listen to the interview click here for the podcast.

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On-line wild food store now rebuilt for mobile - 06 February 12

It is a little incongruous having wild foods which are usually foraged from remote areas, made available at not just the click of a mouse but from your mobile (cell) phone.

Announcing: The Cherikoff on-line store now mobile ready

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Australia Day - make mine marla - 25 January 12

If you are concerned about your health and the environment, the best choice of red meat protein is marla (kangaroo). Research shows that domestic meats are pro-inflammatory which may lead to all sorts of nutritional diseases. By comparison, game meats are far less inflammatory (5 biochemical markers were monitored before and after consumption of different meats). And if the environmental consequences of what we eat is important to you, marla is adapted to this country (sure, populations can explode in some areas at times) whereas sheep and cattle are not friendly to our ecosystem with respect to erosion or greenhouse effects.

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The Dukan Diet Made Easy and Doubly Effective - 26 November 11

Dr Pierre Dukan, the French doctor who created the Dukan diet has developed an excellent diet program and one which has 5 million French people embracing it along with royalty, celebrities and millions of others in many countries. The gist of the regime, as they call it in France, is a high protein intake complemented with oat bran pancakes for added fibre.

Now our Wild Weightloss Way turns up the gain on the weight loss program.

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An invitation from Vic Cherikoff - 25 November 11

I am looking for people who want to change their lives to work with me in a small, coached team. If you are open to a side project that will not interfere with your current activities AND you are highly motivated, a natural leader and really want to achieve your dreams before the end, take the next step.

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Making Xmas Easy on Yourself - 24 November 11

Xmas is approaching rapidly and the team at the Dining Downunder on-line store wish you all the very best for the Season.

With a wide range of food products, stocking stuffers and unlimited ideas incorporating the unique flavours of Australia, we make it easy for you to select and send your Christmas gifts to others or yourself. In fact, as your first Xmas present for 2011, here is a 10% discount on purchases in our store: Just quote the coupon XMAS2011 on checking out.

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