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Sunday 5 July 2009
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We are working with catering and restaurant businesses to help consumers make healthier choices when eating out. We are encouraging companies to reduce the amount of salt and saturated fat in their dishes to help consumers maintain energy balance (not consuming more calories than needed) and to make nutritional information more accessible available.
The types of action we are promoting include reformulating dishes to reduce the amounts of saturated fat, salt and sugar; menu planning to introduce a wider range of healthier options and the use of healthier cooking methods.
We are working to encourage:
We are also working to develop a voluntary system of nutrition information (calorie labelling) in a range of businesses and catering outlets which will help consumers make informed choices when eating out.
Our catering strategy supports our work with food retailers and manufacturers to encourage similar commitments and as the strategy develops we intend to work with businesses in other sectors of the food service and catering industry – to build on the good work that has already been carried out by some of these companies.
The Agency launched the first phase of activity aimed at introducing nutrition information in a range of catering outlets to provide consumers with more consistent information when they are eating out. The first step will be the introduction of calorie labelling. More information can be found at the link below.
Back to topThe Agency is working closely with the UK's largest workplace caterers as well as, restaurant, pub, coffee and sandwich chains to encourage them to enable their customers to make healthier choices when eating out.
The Agency has published case studies from seven major UK employers, Asda, Pepsico, Nestlé, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury, Tesco and Unilever, that outline the processes undertaken to provide healthier food for their staff. The case studies will assist other companies setting up similar projects.
More information about the kind of approach we want to take with regard to healthy catering, and how your company can be involved.
Prepared by Navigator Research for the Central Office of Information on behalf of Food Standards Agency.
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