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Three Sanitarium products

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Three Sanitarium products

These are three products sold by the Sanitarium Health Food Company in the 1920s. From left are Frucerea, a coffee substitute in the form of a black essence made from fruit and cereals, Nuttolene, a meat substitute made from ground peanuts and grains, and Marmite, a spread for bread.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, The Press (Christchurch) Collection (PAColl-3031)

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Sarah Wilcox, Food and beverage manufacturing – Spreads and breakfast cereals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22988/three-sanitarium-products (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 3 March 2010.