Health and Vitality
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Companies Rewarded for Healthy Best Practices In First-Ever Foodservice ‘Health & Vitality Honours’
A NUMBER of organisations sufficiently advanced in the health, nutrition and vitality arena will be rewarded for their efforts with recognition in the first-ever Health & Vitality Honours a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for… Read More
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Health & Vitality Roll of Honour
ORGANISATIONS FROM across the foodservice supply chain form The Roll of Honour for the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours scheme announced today. Caterers from the private and public sectors, manufacturers and suppliers… Read More
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FootprintComment: Salt reduction is the road to a healthier lifestyle
PHIL HOOPER, Corporate Affairs Director of Sodexo UK & Ireland comments exclusively to FoodserviceFootprint.com on the importance of a commitment to salt reduction. Reducing the amount of… Read More
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Sustainable Diets
ENCOURAGING CONSUMERS to adopt sustainable diets is important for health, environmental and social reasons. But there is difficulty in defining what such a diet is and how to communicate this to the consumer in a way they can engage with… Read More
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FootprintComment: Beware of portion distortion
Peter Grove, organiser of National Eating Out/In Week, explains the beauty of diversity but warns of our tendency to over-feed. NATIONAL EATING Out/In Week took place to celebrate the diversity of international cuisines in Britain and raise money for… Read More
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Hippocrates: Organisations are what they eat
AS WE enter the last week for submissions of the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours 2013, Amanda Ursell enlightens us about the importance of creating a platform for excellence. Napoleon, said to be one of the greatest military commanders… Read More
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Information, Information, Information
AS The Nation gets chubbier, more and more companies are pledging to provide facts about how (un)healthy their food is. But do diners need or want them? Albert Einstein once said that the devil has put a penalty on… Read More
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US vending machines get calorie labels
VENDING MACHINES in America will soon carry information about the calories in the drinks on offer. The new Calories Count Vending Program will be launched in municipal buildings in the cities of Chicago and San Antonio next year before… Read More
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Unilever offers new nutrition training
UNILEVER FOOD Solutions (UFS) has launched an industry-first health and nutrition training programme to help lecturers raise awareness and improve catering students knowledge of nutrition in the workplace. The interactive programme called Understanding Nutrition in Commercial Kitchens … Read More