Nutrition Awards 2013: all winners
Five categories, five winners and 11 honorable mentions were delivered today in the Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, to projects that have distinguished themselves with regard to innovation and entrepreneurship in the agroalimentary sector and Nutrition Sciences in Portugal.For the fourth consecutive year, the Nutrition Awards, a joint organisation of the GCI and consultant of the Portuguese Association of Dietitians (APN), awarded research projects, products, services and initiatives of mobilization who have distinguished themselves among the more than 100 applications received.Thus, the winners are the Frueat (product innovation), Myfarm.com (innovation), Faculty of Sciences of nutrition and feeding of the University of Porto, Edenred and Directorate-General of health (mobilization Initiative), Frulact (research and development) and the journalist Louis Silvestre, Saturday at Public Communication special award.The winners of each category will have a stamp of recognition of quality and distinction, which may use as reinforcement on the credibility of their products, services and projects and as a tool for marketing and communication. In its fourth edition, the Nutrition Awards included the sponsorship of APED, Continent, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and McDonald 's, having as partners of media audiences, the frog, the Store Magazine, the GreenSavers distribution Today and the SIC NotÃcias. WINNERS of the NUTRITION AWARDS 2013PRODUCT INNOVATION |WinnerFrueatThe product released by the Frueat, the Fruut, consists of natural dehydrated Apple slices produced at Quinta de Vilar, in Viseu. The product is 100% natural, constıtuÃdo only for Apple, no added sugar, fat or preservatives, and 100% national, having joined the movement I'm Portugal.The drying process of the product was developed in partnership with the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica and the Escola Superior Agrária de Viseu. Partnerships with universities to stimulate the process of innovation and development, offered to young researchers in touch with real-world scenarios of market.SERVICE INNOVATION |Winner"MyFarm.com-your garden, your products, our ingenuity". The main objective of this organization is to promote and sensitize the population to the cultivation and maintenance of its own vegetable garden, 49 m2, participating, to the extent of its possibilities, and according to the information provided, in the activities of the productive process. In this way customers (e-farmers) consume, with confidence, the vegetables that they produce (the MyFarm offers about 70 cultures of spring/summer and autumn/winter). In your area of terrain is installed a camera, from which the customer can follow 24/12:0 am the development process that asked to be planted. Farmers are the company's partners on the component production and share with the MyFarm investments, costs and revenues (up to 60% of all revenue, depending on their degree of involvement with the production process and with the client).MOBILIZATION INITIATIVE | WinnerFaculty of nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto, Edenred and General Health Direction with the project "Intelligent Nutrition-eat better, save more". This Manual is intended for the population in General, particularly those responsible for the management of food familiar. The book has been adopted as a tool for internal consultation in public institutions, such as the Ministry of solidarity and Social Security, and private institutions and of the Social economy and can be downloaded in several sites of government institutions as www.alimentacaosaudavel.dgs.pt.& RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT | WinnerFRULACT-Agroalimentary Industry, s. a., with the project "FruShape â€" Fruit into shapes (development of a amiloproteica array formatted containing fruit, vegetables, chocolate, or cocoa)". The FruShape is a product with high nutritional value presented so playful and fun, to the younger population segments, and as the product of easy accessibility and consumption for the segments more seniors. This research and development project began in September of 2010 and the next phase of the project will be FruShape the industrialization and commercialization from 2014.SPECIAL PREMIUM COMMUNICATION "PUBLIC" |WinnerJournalist Louis Silvestre, Saturday magazine, as research paper titled: "Why do we eat?", whose objective was to "understand the secrets of the appetite, and the brain is just as important as the stomach. The colors and the sounds are as important as the flavors. And genetics is as important as taste. "
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