The Story behind Funkee Foods' Unique Hot Sauce Journey
Sometime in 2018, I went to visit my doctor and he informed me that my blood pressure was too high and that I needed to eat healthier.
I tried a lot of the hot sauces that I knew were on the market at the time, and most of them were a bit too spicy and lacked flavour - or didn’t have any spice and were tasteless.
Therefore, I started making my own sauces to add to my fruits and vegetables. I started with the Original Hot Sweet Pepper Sauce.
I then had the opportunity to have a family gathering where I took the Original Hot Sweet Pepper Sauce with me, and everybody loved it, so I decided to turn it into a business. Today, we have 6 chilli oils (one vegan - Coconut & Aubergine Vegan Chilli Oil) and 4 hot sauces.
I am also very enthusiastic about combatting food waste, as growing up, it was very difficult to have one square meal a day. Food waste was not an option for me. Therefore I decided to make my sauces from the 'funny-looking' fruits and vegetables and incorporate them with the regular ones to make our tasty hot sweet pepper sauces and chilli oils - which is why we call it ‘funkee’ hot sauces and chilli oils.
As I also want to incorporate healthy, clean eating, I also decided to make my products with all-natural preservatives and no added colouring, which makes it the UK’s first chilled hot sauce, made from fresh fruits and vegetables.
Turning Quirky Produce into Delicious, All-Natural Sauces
This programme came right on time as during that period, my GP had recently advised me to make healthier choices. After scouring the supermarkets to find tasty, suitable hot sauces and not being able to find any, I decided to make my own from funny-looking fruits and vegetables.
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I am very proud of the fact that we have been able to produce a sauce that contains:
All-Natural Preservatives
No Colouring
An Array of Vitamins
Flavour, Fun and Freshness in Every Bottle
Funkee Foods' sauces & chilli oils are known for their very bold flavours, which are heavily inspired by our West African heritage. One of our key ingredients is cloves which have been used for hundreds of years and have been known for their health benefits.
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We really hope that you enjoy tasting our products as much as we love making them.
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Love always, Amanda,
Founder and CEO of Funkee Foods