Tastebuddies - Healthy Eating, Food & Nutrition

Corporate Nutrition Needs

With over 20 years experience, our nutritionist Roslyn Anderson can assist food companies, restaurants, cafes, magazines and cookbook publishers with nutritional labelling, advice and recipe analysis.

Food Industry – New Product Development

Whether you are a small food company, or a farmer or grower selling products at a Farmers' Market, the food labelling requirements (from Food Standards Australia) are the same. We can assist you in reliable, accurate, nutritional food labelling for your products. 

Food Labelling

Our food product labelling service includes everything you need to comply with Australian food labelling regulations:

  • Ingredient declarations
  • Nutritional panels
  • Allergen statement
  • Percentage labelling requirements
  • Nutritional claims labelling
  • Advice on nutritional claims and the effects on product labels
  • Regulatory compliance

Nutritional Product Formulation

We can help with:

  • Formulating and reformulating foods to make them healthier (e.g. lower salt, higher fibre, higher protein, low G.I.) or to meet a desired nutritional claim (e.g. 97% fat free)
  • Assisting with the design of products for people with special medical needs
  • Advising on consumer nutritional trends

Contact us for further information on nutritional labelling and food product development.

Cafes, Restaurants and Pubs

In November 2010, the NSW government announced new fast food labelling laws for menus in major fast food outlets in NSW. They will be required to provide the kilojoule (energy) information for each menu item on display.

Healthy eating is definitely a trend that is increasing with popularity and the provision of healthy food options and nutrition information can give an edge to cafes, restaurants and pubs.

As more people are eating out, they will be asking questions and putting pressure on cafes, restaurants and pubs to provide nutritional information on the menus that they are serving so they have the ability to make a healthy choice.

Consumers are becoming more nutrition savvy when eating out and many are also looking for food options to meet their medical diets (such as gluten free or low fat).

Our nutritionist can assist you with updating or revamping your current menu so your customers can make quick & easy healthy choices, without questioning your time-poor service staff.

Give your menu the nutritional advantage and make your customers happy.

Services include:

  • Nutritional recipe analysis
  • Provide nutritional labels for menu items with nutrient content such as energy (kJ), protein, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugar, sodium and dietary fibre.
  • Provide you with information on which menu items can have a nutritional claim (e.g. vegetarian, vegan, low fat, low GI, gluten free, dairy free, lactose free, wheat free, low salt, dietary fibre) or general health claims such as "heart friendly".
  • Provide each menu item with a nutritional claim (if suitable) which can be given an icon and an icon reference table at the end of your menu.
  • Assist in the creation and development of new healthy menus.
  • Advise suitable ingredient alternatives to meet a nutritional claim, such as gluten-free.
  • Advise recipe modification such as cooking techniques to reduce saturated fat.
  • Develop nutrition facts.
  • Develop nutrition guides.
  • Develop allergen reference guide for staff which provides training information on common allergies.

Contact us to get further information on how our nutritionist can help your business with nutritional labelling, recipe analysis, and other nutritional services.

Consumers are looking for nutritional labelling with online recipes too

Magazines, Cookbooks & Websites

Consumers are increasingly looking for nutritional information on each recipe and also for icons to quickly guide them to recipes that meet their medical dietary needs, such as:

  • low fat
  • low salt
  • gluten free
  • wheat free
  • lactose free
  • dairy free
  • suitable for vegetarians or vegans

Services suitable for magazines, cookbooks and websites include:

  • Nutritional recipe analysis
  • Nutritional information panel for each recipe which includes energy (kilojoules), protein, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugar and sodium (salt), dietary fibre
  • Summary of recipes that fit different nutritional categories (e.g. vegetarian, low fat, low GI, gluten free, dairy free, lactose free, wheat free, low salt)

Contact us to get further information.

Find out more about Roslyn Anderson's industry experience.

 
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