What is VGF?
VGF stands for Vegan (and) Gluten Free. Mandala VGF only produces food products which are both vegan (ie no animal protein) and gluten free. This means that all of our foods are…
- gluten free
- dairy free
- egg free
- vegetarian
- vegan
Why choose us?
If you’re vegan and gluten free we don’t really need to ask! But our mission is more than that – we want our foods to be super tasty, not just something you have to eat simply because of your dietary choices or restrictions. In fact quite a few of our customers have no dietary restrictions at all – they just love our food!
Here are some other details about how we prepare our food products and how we operate…
- no animal product or gluten product enters our production facility
- no anti-caking agents, preservatives or emulsifiers are used in our products
- no oats, sesame or artificial sweeteners* are used in our products
- most of our foods are soy free, with the exception of some of our meals which do contain tofu
- we only use filtered water
- all our organic waste is taken off site and composted
- we recycle all glass, hard plastics (we cannot recycle soft plastics any more since the closure of the REDcycle program), tin, paper and cardboard
- packaging is kept to a minimum and as sustainable as possible – our cookies are sold in non-plastic packaging and all of our boxes and bags are either compostable or recyclable
As we hand make all of our products, they may not always appear uniform in size or shape! We also do not use any preservatives, so if you want to extend the shelf life of our foods we recommend popping any you’re not eating right now into the freezer to keep them fresh!
*such as Acesulphame K (additive number 950), Alitame (956), Aspartamine (951) eg Equal, Cyclamate (952), Neotame (961), Saccharin (954) eg Sweetex and Sucralose (955) eg Splenda, Xylitol and Maltodextrin (as above our range of cookies for cafes do currently contain very small quantities of maltodextrin in the chocolate chips – we are looking to move to a maltodextrin free supplier as soon as possible)
Who
Mandala VGF is the brainchild of Cathy Bateson. She set up the business when she realised that it was easy to find vegan food and easy to find gluten free food, but almost impossible to find vegan AND gluten free food!
…or cookbooks…
