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A worker co-operative offering a wide variety of vegetarian, vegan, organic, free-from and specialist food and drink. We are committed to ethical business practices and sourcing products from other co-operatives.

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Sustainable & delicious ingredients from Suma

Sustainable and delicious ingredients

We've been stocking kitchens with delicious and responsibly sourced ingredients since 1977, all of them ethical, natural and veggie, many organic, Fairtade and free-from.


Always responsibly sourced

We've done our homework so you don't have to. You can trust us to have carefully researched our supply chains and ingredients so you can be confident you're only buying fairly-traded and sustainable products, many of which are made by other co-ops.


Suma always responsibly sources products and ingredients
From an ethical equal pay worker co-op, Suma Foods

From an ethical equal pay worker co-op

We're a little bit different. Suma is a worker-owned co-op founded in 1977. With no bosses and equal pay for all, we're Europe's largest equal pay co-op. Built on integrity, equality, and sustainability, we're here to inspire change. You can't say fairer than that.


The Journey of Suma

We said bye-bye to the norm in 1977

1977 Suma People

1977

Sacks full of…

Started out with sacks of beans & pulses, before wholefoods were a thing.

1989

1989

Spreading it around

Remember the wholefood household staple, apple and pear spread?

1996

1996

The 90s vegan butter

We were way ahead of the supermarkets with our organic sunflower spread.

2000

2000

Organic originals

We were the first people to bring organic tinned tomatoes to the UK.

2016

2016

Vegan comfort food

Vegan sausages and beans in a tin, a UK first. Now widely impersonated.

2024

2024

From Italy, with love

Deli-grade organic gluten-free oat pasta, brought to UK kitchens.