Industry Watch
School Kitchen launches from Yorkshire school offering a takeaway service with a difference
15th April 2024
School Kitchen, a community-focused enterprise, works with local schools to use their kitchens on school day evenings and during weekends. It provides an eco-friendly home delivery takeaway food service and the school also receives a share of the revenue.
School Kitchen also runs free cookery classes for school pupils and it provides an apprenticeship scheme for recent school leavers in the area. School Kitchen ensures all staff are employed fairly.
School Kitchen is run from the kitchens of Carr Junior School in York, which is part of the South Bank Multi Academy Trust. Find out more here...
(Photo: Olivia Brabbs, School Kitchen)
Who is responsible for fixing the food system? A framing analysis of media reactions to the UK’s National Food Strategy
15th April 2024
Researchers studied coverage by the media and social media reactions to the National Food Strategy (NFS) to comprehend the public perception of who is responsible for dealing with issues relating to food.
This study found that the media's coverage of the National Food Strategy’s findings generally placed more responsibility for change on the individual’s personal choice.
The media put less emphasis on the structural problems of the food system that need policy intervention and systemic change.
Forget port-swilling Victorians: 1 in 40 Brits have gout and cases in young adults increased 30%
2nd April 2024
The most recent figures have shown that 1 in 40 British people have gout, which makes it the most common form of inflammatory arthritis. Cases of gout have increased by 30% among people in their twenties and thirties (London Medical Laboratory).
The 2023 BMC Primary Care study examined 51,784 cases of people with gout. The study found that 35.9% of people experienced at least one more gout flare up during the study. It found increased likelihood of gout flares in people who are male, black, have a higher body mass index (BMI), have cardiovascular disease (CVD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), or who are taking diuretics.
Food Standards Agency Report Shows Children's Menus Need Improvement
2nd April 2024
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published research results on children’s meals served in restaurants in Northern Ireland. This research was conducted in partnership with local councils,
The main findings of the report What’s on the Children’s Menu are:
The most popular children’s meals included fried chicken and chips, sausages and chips and burger and chips.
The most popular children’s meals had a high energy, salt and saturated fat content.
- 43% of meals were found to contain greater than half of the average amount of energy recommended for 5-year-old children
- 70% of meals were found to contain greater than half the maximum amount of salt recommended for 5-year-old children
- 47% of meals were found to contain greater than half of the average amount of saturated fat recommended for 5-year-old children
British Nutrition Foundation Drummond Early Career Scientist Award 2024
Monday 18th March 2024
The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) Drummond Early Career Scientist Award is run by the BNF annually. The award recognises early career nutrition scientists, who demonstrate the potential to become future leaders in the nutrition field.
Applicants to the BNF Drummond Early Career Scientist Award need to complete an application form and submit an abstract for a mini review that is a current area of human nutrition science and would be suitable to submit to Nutrition Bulletin.
The closing date for applications is midnight on 26th May 2024.