Wild Australian ingredients - The Antidote for Modern Foods

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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



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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Selling from the Shelves - 07 November 11

How do smaller retailers get to their customers when the cost of advertising is prohibitive? And then there’s the truism; “Half of my advertising is worthwhile but I don’t know which half.”

We have managed to establish distribution of our Skews® which are my innovative herb and spice range delivered as infused wooden skewers. These are available in IGA supermarkets, Harris Farm outlets and the better quality butcheries and specialty ingredient stores. However, the challenge was how to communicate the innovation of this new flavour delivery system at store level.

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Jensen Farm cantaloupes (rock melons) - 09 October 11

Jensen Farms in the US found listeria on their melons and issued a product recall to minimize the health implications. Unfortunately, as a major supplier to a wide range of markets (domestic and commercial), Jensen Farms cantaloupes have lead to at least 4 deaths and many hospitalizations.

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Wild foods now easier to find and forage - 02 September 11

We have just re-designed our on-line store and welcome you in to browse around and tell us what you think.

It’s a cleaner look and easier navigation and we have streamlined our wholesale section for our larger pack sizes for chefs.

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Website now in Ukranian - 30 August 11

I recently received a request from Martha Ruszkowski from the Ukraine asking if she could translate my website into her native language for readers of her blog and I was happy to give my agreement.

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Weight Loss with Superfoods - 19 August 11

I have added some new videos to this site which explain why we are getting fatter as a society.

Check it out for your health. Click here to gain access after registering.

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What's the perfect diet and why are we getting fat? - 11 July 11

It’s pretty clear that as a population, we in the developed world are losing the Battle of the Bulge. Despite promotion of whole foods, organics or healthy food choices; the marketing of food pyramids; go, grow, glow food charts; 2 fruits and 5 vegetable campaigns; swags of nutritionists clogging government halls, supermarket PR departments and even McDonald’s spin teams, nothing is slowing the expansion of our collective girths. It’s a volume of lipid of biblical proportions sweeping over the planet like a pestilence of the past.

A simple cure might not be possible without significant change to our food supply or widespread surgical intervention. Obesity may need to be part of the carbon tax debate with individuals over a set BMI (body mass index) paying tax on their disproportionate contribution to green house gas emissions. That will be popular if it’s politically correct to even think it.

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