Norco Natural Elbo Style Cheese receives ‘Best Dairy for Lunchboxes’ Award
Norco Co-operative, Australia’s oldest dairy co-operative, is celebrating a ‘grate’ win for best dairy for back to school lunchboxes in Healthy Food Guide ‘Lunchbox Awards 2023’.
Norco’s delicious and healthier alternative, Norco Natural Elbo Style Cheese has taken home the prize for ‘best dairy for lunchboxes’ as voted by a panel of dietitians at the Australian Healthy Food Guide.
The award is the second accolade for Norco Natural Elbo Style Cheese which was voted ‘best dairy’ in the EatWell Yummies Award 2022, voted by more than 17,000 Australian Wellbeing consumers.
Australian Healthy Food Guide – offers advice from dietitians and nutritionists to help consumers choose products at the supermarket.
The inaugural Healthy Food Guide Lunchbox Awards recognises innovative and exciting foods ideal for school or work lunchboxes.
The Elbo style cheese made its way on to the list because of its high calcium content, acidophilus cultures for good gut health, reduced salt and low sugar content making it a delicious and nutritious choice for little one’s or grown-up’s lunchboxes. I
n 2022, cheese was Australia’s favourite dairy to consume, with 15 kilograms of cheese devoured per capita and 40 per cent of Australia’s milk was used to produce a whopping 408,000 tonnes of the delectable snack.
Cheddar style cheese continues to remain an Aussie staple and accounted for 52 per cent of the total produced cheese1 .
Norco Natural Elbo Style Cheese is a legacy product that has been in the Australian market for over 35 years – oozing with goodness it is a creamy, healthy cheese with no animal rennet making it suitable for vegetarians.
Norco general manager of Commercial & Strategy, Ben Menzies said it is an honour to be recognised as a nutritious choice for school and work lunchboxes.
“Norco has proudly produced Australia’s best tasting dairy from the ground up for over a century and this award is just another reminder of our legacy and…
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