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Thai-style prawn salad
with quandong confit
enhanced with wattleseed extract

Welcome to the Vic Cherikoff Australian food website.

Please use the site search facility on the right if you are looking for specific ingredients or topics. If you are just browsing, then on this site you will find information about:

Australian food ingredients and flavours eg Wattleseed, lemon myrtle sprinkle, Alpine pepper, paperbark
• Australian recipes and our emerging Australilan cuisine eg Wattleseed pavlova or barramundi in paperbark or Coconut and Lemon myrtle brulee
Australian functional ingredients eg Herbal-Active™ and HerBev™
• Australian menu ideas
• and a 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 25 years of experience in commercializing wild food species and 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?



Australian food

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

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


Cherikoff Rare Spices

Give your familiar recipes a uniquely Australian flavour with our distinctively delicious, nutritiously enticing herbs, spices, fruits, seeds and products made from them.

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

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This link 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 and Riberry confit.


Vic Cherikoff Food Services

Chefs and Restaurateurs - fill your restaurant with customers who rave about your food. Become part of a global trend exploring the newest flavors in the food industry.

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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.


Cherikoff Manufacturing Ingredients

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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Could your product benefit from endorsement by Vic Cherikoff? A growing number of manufacturers recognise the authenticity implied from an association with the Vic Cherikoff brand. Enquiries on licensing opportunities are also welcome. Email us on licensing at cherikoff.net.


And be sure to check out our other related websites:

Dining Downunder | Aussie Chefs

Vic Cherikoff blog and recent news

Super Foods for Super Health - 01 November 09

Lots of people are asking after my booklet titled Super Foods for Super Health which was written with Dr George Kowalski. It covers the significance of a whole range of sources of antioxidants and the first chapter is all about the nutritional value and unique characteristics of Australian wild foods.

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Kakadu Juice, Herbal-Active and Manuka honey - 18 October 09

A little like the holy trinity of nutrition, well being and health, the combination of Kakadu Juice™, Herbal-Active™ and Manuka honey could just be the cure-all for diseases in and outside the body.

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Variety of Chefs for Variety The Children's Charity - 03 October 09

I was at the Variety Charity’s function last week doing a dessert on stage as part of the comedy relief at the event. The function was called Variety of Chefs and I was in the line up with celebrity chefs, Peter Kuruvita, Ben O’Donoghue, Sean Connolly, Jared Ingersoll, Warren Turnbull and hosted by my good friend and colleague, Benjamin Christie.

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Survive the recession, enhance your lifestyle - 10 September 09

Lots of people ask me how they can get involved in the wild food industry if they can’t grow foods, only occasionally cook with them or otherwise find it difficult to contribute to the industry’s growth.

They appreciate how tough it’s been pushing the frontiers and always staying ahead of the game. Small business is never easy so starting a new industry is a whole new level of pain.

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Extended shelf life, reduced waste for fresh produce - 02 September 09

Hospitality Directory has given me some air with a product review on Herbal-Active™.

My natural antimicrobial is ideal for berries, cherries, stone fruits and melons; vegetables such as zucchini and cucumbers and even tomatoes which can harbour molds which can then contaminate tomato sauces and pastes made from un-dipped tomatoes.

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Natural Products Expo Asia - 25 August 09

I have been invited to present a workshop in Hong Kong at the Natural Products Expo Asia and this will be on the 28th August at 2pm. My topic is Ancient Flavours for Today’s Kitchen and is sub-titled Prehistoric nutrition for modern times.

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Kakau Juice in the USA. How do you get your antioxidants? - 18 August 09

Just back from another USA tour for Kakadu Juice. It gets clearer with each visit to the US that here is a country which is quickly manipulating their food supply to high sucrose, high bad fats, low fibre, nutritionally dilute foods.

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Pizza Hut to make transition to natural ingredients - 21 June 09

Pizza Hut, the world’s largest pizza franchise, is launching the first stage in a menu-wide transition to pizzas made entirely from natural ingredients in the US. The new pizzas will provide their customers the opportunity to have pizza free from artificial preservatives, colours and flavours, they advised.

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What'll it be? Kakadu Juice or horse placenta. - 13 June 09

Have you heard about the newest health food product? While they eat horse meat in Europe, feed the meat to dogs in Australia and ride the living animals in the USA, in Japan they recommend the placenta as the healthiest health food.

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Herbal-Active™ now approved for organics!!! - 11 June 09

The Organic Food Chain Pty Ltd has notified us that our natural preservative, Herbal-Active™ is approved for use in organic food products. Its sister formulation, HerBev™ will have the same status for pasteurized beverages.

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