Symposium Food and Health - Can Blue Potatoes Protect Against Cancer and Bread Lower Cholesterol?

FAEN "Food Network"

On May 27.05.2009th, XNUMX the FAEN is holding a symposium on the subject of "Food and Health - Can blue potatoes protect against cancer and bread lower the cholesterol level?" at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover. Functional foods are foods with additional health benefits. So far, they have mainly been offered for dairy products as well as fat and oils and in particular by food companies.

As part of the “Netzwerk Lebensmittel”, the FAEN offers small and medium-sized companies, especially from the potato, delicatessen, baked goods, and meat and meat products industries, but also spice and auxiliary material suppliers, the opportunity to develop such products in the To be part of a network together with leading research institutions. From the product idea, through product development, consumer research to clinical studies to safeguard health claims, specific projects are carried out in the network.

Within the framework of this symposium, the current developments of the various projects will be presented and further procedures will be discussed. New network participants who want to implement the results and findings in concrete projects are always welcome. After participating, interested companies and developers can better assess whether and how it makes sense to work on such innovative and promising development projects.

In the joint project "Network food - from high-quality raw materials to healthy nutrition“ of the FAEN, the competence of the Lower Saxony research institutions is bundled in order to advance research in this field and thus improve the competitiveness of the food industry.

You can find the program and registration form [here]

Source: Hanover [ DIL ]