Europe continues to battle with excessive ranges of childhood weight problems. However as understanding across the significance of early years diet grows, so too does the chance for producers to satisfy calls for for well being and performance.
How can trade greatest assist carers and infants within the first 1,000 days, and assist set children up for a wholesome future? At FoodNavigator’s upcoming digital summit Optimistic Vitamin 2024, we’ll search to reply this and extra…
14 March: Meals for Youngsters
11am CET Hearth chat
Vitamin within the early years: Challenges and alternatives from pre-conception to childhood
Might milk and method solely be a part of the ‘formative years diet’ story? Nestlé believes nurturing the well being of carers can also be a vital part, and the FMCG main is innovating to broaden its attain on this area. We meet up with Dr Sara Colombo Mottaz, head of medical, scientific and regulatory affairs underneath Nestlé’s Vitamin Strategic Enterprise Unit, to speak sufficient and acceptable diet within the early years.
Speaker: Dr Sara Colombo Mottaz, head of medical, scientific and regulatory affairs, Vitamin Strategic Enterprise Unit, Nestlé
11:20am Panel dialogue
Youth diet: Feeding the subsequent era of fussy eaters
From pre-prepared meals to prepared meals and even recipe packing containers geared toward children, child and youngsters’s meals classes are increasing. Producers have a duty to get the diet proper, so what progressive methods are being leveraged to marry diet and comfort for fussy eaters? How can elements, applied sciences, and artistic approaches encourage wholesome habits from a younger age?
Audio system:
- Tobias Gunzenhauser, co-founder and CEO, yamo
- Laura Seymour, founder, Foodini Membership
- Mandy Bobrowski, advertising director, Organix
- Dr Sara Colombo Mottaz, head of medical, scientific and regulatory affairs, Vitamin Strategic Enterprise Unit, Nestlé
Optimistic Vitamin: Wholesome Innovation for the Mass Market 12-14 March 2024
Over three days and 6 periods, the interactive broadcast sequence will ask how trade can leverage innovation to supply more healthy food and drinks.
Meals and beverage producers are underneath extra strain than ever to ship nutritious meals for the mass market. On the identical time, the idea of ‘wholesome’ is altering. The place as soon as customers had been laser centered on low fats, salt and sugar, immediately’s shopper need that and extra.
Which better-for-you traits are resonating most with shoppers? And the way can producers greatest align this new way forward for wellness to mainstream classes, from snacking to drinks and comfort meals?
Optimistic Vitamin shall be broadcast over three days 12-14 March 2024. Every day the morning session will begin at 11am CET and the afternoon session from 3pm CET.
For extra info on the programme, audio system, or to register for the free-to-attend occasion, go to the Optimistic Vitamin homepage.
12 March 2024
11am CET – Reformulation & Fortification: Altering Tendencies in More healthy Meals
‘Unhealthy’ meals are within the highlight, with customers wanting better-for-you options. With these identical shoppers unwilling to compromise on style, meals producers have a problem on their palms: how can ‘baddies’ greatest be eliminated, and helpful elements added, with constructive diet in thoughts?
3pm CET – Plant-Primarily based Beneath the Microscope
The plant-based market has boomed within the final decade, with projections it is going to double in worth by 2030. However the current dramatic slowdown suggests the class isn’t hitting the mark with customers. With well being a serious driver behind selections to scale back meat and dairy consumption, is the plant-based class’s associations with overprocessing and ‘unclean’ elements muddying its popularity? How can producers enhance the dietary credentials of plant-based milk and dairy?
13 March 2024
11am CET – Meals as Medication
As we speak’s shoppers aren’t turning to food and drinks for vitality alone. A extra nuanced understanding of the connection between eating regimen and well being is coming to form shopper attitudes to meals. So which elements provide best potential in well being and wellness? We ask how the newest dietary science is informing purposeful meals and beverage traits.
3pm CET – Personalised Vitamin: Tapping into Knowledge for More healthy Diets
Developments in personalised diet – whereby individualised dietary recommendation is obtainable based mostly on genetic, environmental and way of life elements – proceed apace. The market is forecast to develop to over $16bn by 2027. From measuring blood sugar responses to microbiome range, how is that this novel sector anticipated to evolve? Can personalisation ever show a boon for the lots?
14 March 2024
11am CET – Meals for Youngsters
Europe continues to battle with excessive ranges of childhood weight problems. However as understanding across the significance of early years diet grows, so too does the chance for producers to satisfy calls for for well being and performance. How can trade greatest assist carers and infants within the first 1,000 days, and assist set children up for a wholesome future?
3pm CET – Free-From
The free-from class is altering form as increasingly individuals observe restricted diets. Nowadays shoppers aren’t solely turning away from frequent allergens gluten and shellfish, but additionally different extensively used elements from soy to nuts and dairy. As an rising variety of individuals get rid of widespread elements from their diets, what alternatives are opening up within the free-from area?
