Waitrose Duchy Organic Waitrose Duchy Organic Waitrose Duchy Organic (formerly "Duchy Originals from Waitrose" and earlier simply "Duchy Originals") is a brand of organic food sold mainly in Waitrose stores in the United Kingdom, Ocado and small independent stores. The brand is a partnership between Waitrose and Duchy Originals Limited, a company set up by Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1990 and named after the Duchy of Cornwall estates that are held in trust by the Prince of Wales. The Duchy Originals brand was originally conceived in 1990 as an outlet for the organic food grown on the Prince of Wales Highgrove House
Waitrose Duchy Organic savoury pastry products. The venture suffered financial problems, with the factory making a loss of £447,158 in the financial year 2006/7. In 2009 the Duchy Originals company decided to sell the bakery, with one-off costs from the sale contributing towards Duchy Originals making a loss for 2009-10. In 2008 Duchy Originals partnered with the alternative medicine company Nelsons to produce a line of herbal remedies. This led to controversy, in which leading UK scientists said that Duchy Originals promoted its herbal remedies with scientifically unsound claims. Edzard Ernst, the UK's first professor of complementary medicine, said Duchy Originals detox products