Sanitarium Health Food Company
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The Sanitarium Health Food Company is a Seventh-day Adventist Church owned company that creates a range of vegetarian products. Founded in 1898, its flagship produce Weet-Bix is a top seller in the Australian and New Zealand breakfast cereal market.
Sanitarium has factories in many locations across Australia and New Zealand, some of these include, Cooranbong, Perth, Melbourne, Palmeston North, Brisbane. Sanitarium is still wholly owned by the Church.
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History
Officially formed in 1898, the process of forming a health food company had been in discussions amongst Seventh-day Adventists in Australia for a number of years. To help the company get started, a baker by the name of Edward Halsey was called out from the United States, arriving in Sydney on Novermber 8, 1897.
Products
Breakfast cereals
- Weet-Bix, and its family of products:
- Weet-Bix Crunch
- Good Start
- Hi-bran
- Fruity-bix
- Fruity-bix Bars
- Lite-bix
- Granola
- Puffed wheat
- Honey wheats
- Aussie Corn flakes
- Light'n'tasty
- Ricies
Convenient breakfast cereals
- Up&Go
- Fastbreak
Meals
- Lunch Today
- Vege Delights Range
Spreads
- Sanitarium Peanut Butter
- Peanuts Peanut Butter
- Natural Peanut Butter
- Marmite
Dairy Alternatives
- So-Good, and its family of products:
- So-Good Ice Cream
- So-Good Lite
- Flavoured So-Good
- Organics Simply Soy
- Sanitarium brand nuts and confectionaries.
References
Parr, R., & Litster, G. (c1996). "What Hath God Wrought!": The Sanitarium Health Food Company Story. Berkely Vale: Sanitarium Health Food Company
External Links
- Sanitarium Australia (http://www.sanitarium.com.au)
- Sanitarium New Zealand (http://www.sanitarium.co.nz)