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World Food Day: 5 things you can do in your workplace today to support sustainable food systems
With sustainability and equity increasingly on the menu, the theme for this year’s World Food Day is timely, “Grow, nourish, sustain. Together. Our actions are our future”. In the midst of the pandemic, there’s never been a better time for sustainable food systems...
Nutritionary: understanding the jargon of nutrition, diet and health
Appetite Communications have put together our own “nutritionary” – a dictionary to help decipher the nutrition terms thrown around in the media, research papers and journals.
Midnight snacks with night time nutrients coming to a bedside table near you
Most of us have tried a Sleepytime tea or a cosy mug of hot cocoa with milk to get a good night’s sleep, but what if we told you that snacks and drinks that help us sleep are about to experience their moment in the night light? As functional foods like hemp seeds and...
Immunity health claims – making us healthier or sicker?
Even before coronavirus, immune health has been a growing consumer trend – you can’t get away from claims in the supplement aisle and health food shelves for foods and supplements to “boost your immune system”. If you’re planning to respond to this growing consumer...
Keeping energised in iso – our team’s top tips that get us through the WFH day
Keeping ourselves and our team energised, positive and well as we continue to work from home is a challenge for many leaders and businesses. Our Energising Workplaces team of nutrition communicators, team leaders and movement and mindfulness experts share below what...
Three things we’ve learnt about engaging high school students in nutrition
In 2019, the Appetite team piloted their new high school nutrition program, Brainfeed at two independent schools in Sydney with Year 10 boys and girls. We were keen to learn from students about the relevance of the workshop content and if Brainfeed could empower them...
Turning food waste into business opportunity
The way we grow, make, buy, eat and store food is far from perfect. Food waste is a massive issue government, regulators and industry would love to solve, given that it costs the Australian economy $20 billion a year. 2019 stats from the National Food Waste Baseline...
5 food mega trends to watch for
Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, has taken a stab at sorting nutrition jargon from food fads to define the biggest growth opportunities for Australian food and agribusinesses that could be worth $25 billion by 2030. Terms like ‘plant-based’, ‘free-from...
The rise of the flexitarian
Dietary rules used to be black and white: people were either vegetarian or meat eaters. Vegans were virtually unheard of and most of us would simply blink and stare wondering what words like pescatarian or flexitarian even meant. Cut to 2019, where 32% - or nearly...
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