These Irish Food Awards celebrate and reward the very best tasting Irish food and drink products, and the passionate, driven producers who make it. All Irish companies, North and South, are invited to submit products that are commercially available to the public in three outlets. This is the biggest blind tasting of produce in the country, and the criteria on which the product is judged as well as the judging system itself was created by the Food Sciences Department of UCC. The Blas na hÉireann Awards is a non-for profit organisation, and was created so that quality benchmarks could be established for Irish produce on a level playing field. All products entered must be submitted by the producer. Winning at the Blas Awards has made significant business differences to our winners. They are our best ambassadors. Visit www.irishfoodawards.com to see what they have to say.