FAQ's

Plastic packaging is important to ensure food safety, whilst maximising product quality and avoiding food waste. As a company, we are committed to sustainability and will continue to work hard to reduce the environmental impact of our packaging.

By 2025 we aim to:

1. Take action to eliminate problematic or unnecessary single-use packaging items
2. 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable
3. 70% of plastic packaging effectively recycled or composted
4. 30% average recycled content across all plastic packaging

You can recycle over 70% of Quorn packaging. All products have a recycling label which provides clear guidance on what and how to recycle. The majority of our packaging is widely recyclable, however, for some types of packaging this will vary by your local facilities. By 2025, we will achieve 100% recyclability of our product packaging.

We use palm oil in Quorn products where it’s needed to help create great taste and texture. We use sustainably produced palm oil certified to the segregated model as a minimum by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Do you know that palm oil is a very versatile vegetable oil with higher yield and efficiency compared to other vegetable oils, which take between 4 and 10 times less land to produce? Also, palm oil production creates millions of jobs in Asia, Africa and Latin America, contributing to economic growth in the areas, improving farmers’ livelihoods and reducing poverty.

Yes, Quorn have used 100% certified sustainable palm oil since 2014. We are committed to using the highest commercially available certified sustainable palm oil. In 2019, we achieved 100% fully segregated Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) palm oil. This means any palm oil we use is physically separated from non-sustainable oil, all the way from the mill to the manufacturing site of the final product. We continue to work with the RSPO, our suppliers, NGOs and other businesses to promote the use and benefits of sustainable palm oil.

You can find out more about our operational carbon footprint and many other sustainability initiatives in our Sustainability Report.

Yes, Quorn products use free range eggs. As a business, we are passionate about promoting high levels of animal welfare and have a very rigid policy for the supply of egg in our products. In recognition of this, Quorn won a ‘Good Egg Award’ from Compassion in World Farming. Free range eggs are used in the Quorn vegetarian product range, however we also have a vegan range which uses potato protein as the binding agent.