Tesco goes nuts for fairtrade

Tesco is about to add two more varieties to its own brand fairtrade nut range, so you can pick and mix lots more varieties when you're looking to snack on nuts or use them in recipes. The new lines are a chopped brazil and dried apricot mix and a peanut, cashew and dried mango mix.

Whatever you think about the supermarket giant, it's good to see they're investing in fairtrade. Fairtrade nuts are creeping in slowly to most shops, but Tesco now offer five varieties, having been the first of the big four to sell them. Over a quarter of the chain's brazil nuts now carry the Fairtrade mark. The nuts are supplied by Twin Trading, the people behind brands such as Cafédirect, Divine Chocolate and AgroFair UK, which supplies fairtrade fruit.

Rosemary Kadzitche, 57, a peanut grower from Malawi whose nuts are being used for one of the new products, said: “Over the past year Fairtrade has already made a difference to our lives. It has brought a better, reliable and more stable market for our peanuts. The Fairtrade premium will help alleviate poverty in the area and it will improve the lives of the entire community when it’s used to pay for more boreholes to be drilled. When we can dig more boreholes we will have cleaner and safer water, fewer diseases and ultimately healthier and better lives.”

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