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Retail Ireland statement following a special meeting of the Retail Forum
Following a special meeting of the Retail Forum, Retail Ireland Director Arnold Dillon said: “The retail sector fully appreciates the concerns of customers at the high levels of food inflation.
The 360 degree approach to supporting nutrition at work
Dr. Fiona Geaney, Founder and CEO of Food Choice and Adjunct Lecturer with the School of Public Health in UCC, explores the shifting workplace environment and shares her advice to employers on promoting better nutrition and lifestyle choices for their employees.
Nutritional analysis, labelling & claims explained
When you look at the Nutritional Labelling on the packaged foods you buy (check out our Blogs on Food Labels and Nutritional Labelling from January and May 2020), you’ll see a panel showing the energy values and various levels of fat, carbohydrate, protein and so on. Have you ever wondered how this is all worked out?
AI NPD and other TLAs
What is AI and what has it got to do with my sliced pan?!
Is bread vegan?
January is well and truly upon us. It’s the month when many people try to improve their lifestyles and diets. Eat less, move more etc! It’s also the month that has been renamed “Veganuary” and champions of the plant-based diet try to encourage and convert consumers to try or adopt veganism. One of the challenges this poses is knowing what foods are vegan and which ones are not. Not everyone is in a position to make their food from scratch, and buying ready to eat vegan foods is much easier. There is a really good selection of new plant-based food producers emerging in the marketplace.
Food and its relationship with Social Media
If you were to google the definition of the phrase “social media influencer” You would find something like “Social media influencers are digital creators with expertise in a specific niche”. There are thousands of them in the food world alone, including chefs, food writers, food scientists, food producers, growers, registered dieticians, nutritionists, or just anyone with an opinion on food or nutrition. However, self-proclaimed “experts” may not all be all that. The problem is that opinion is not always grounded in fact. So, is social media useful for the food world? And can you believe everything you read / see / hear?
New Chair of Prepared Consumer Foods announced
Kieran Conroy, Managing Director for Nestlé Ireland has been announced as the new Chair of the Prepared Consumer Foods (PCF) Council.
Food reformulation
You may or may not have heard the term “reformulation” when it comes to food. What it means is that the recipe is adjusted or ingredients changed in the food to make it more nutritious, by reducing calories and some specific nutrients.