Essence Foods

Norfolk Conserves & Marmalades

Handmade botanical conserves and marmalades crafted in Norfolk

Essence Foods is a Norfolk producer best known for its handmade conserves and marmalades, created with a focus on big fruit flavour, careful balance, and distinctive botanical twists. Made by hand in Norfolk using traditional open-top pans, their recipes are designed to be high in fruit and lower in sugar, resulting in preserves that taste vibrant, grown-up and genuinely special. 

At The Norfolk Deli, Essence Foods is exactly the sort of producer we love to champion: local, flavour-led, and doing something a little more interesting than “just another jar”.

About Essence Foods

Essence Foods makes its products by hand on a rural farm in Norfolk, using time-honoured traditional methods, open pans and original recipes. 

Their Essence Botanicals range brings a distinctive edge to classic preserves, combining fruit with carefully chosen botanicals to create conserves and marmalades that are elegant, aromatic and full of character. 

Whether you’re a toast-and-tea traditionalist or a “pair it with cheese” sort of customer, these jars offer real depth and versatility.

Why We Stock Essence Foods

At The Norfolk Deli, we stock producers who deliver both provenance and flavour — and Essence Foods does exactly that:

• Handmade in Norfolk using traditional methods 
• Cooked in open-top pans for small-batch quality 
• High-fruit, low-sugar recipes for cleaner flavour 
• Botanical twists that make the range genuinely distinctive
• Perfect for gifting, breakfasts and cheeseboards
• A brilliant “something different” hamper upgrade

Meet the Makers

Essence Foods is driven by a simple idea: use Norfolk ingredients, traditional methods and botanical inspiration to create preserves that feel exciting again. Made by hand, in small batches, the range is built for people who care about flavour — not filler