Commercial Nutrition Consultancy

The Russell Partnership’s unique Nutrition Consultancy Service offers unprecedented guidance and support to institutions wishing to improve nutritional standards of catering. Our team of experts, led by qualified nutritionist and author Fiona McDonald Joyce, Dip.ION, M.BANT, work with all levels of staff to help your team develop menus and healthy eating initiatives to meet the needs of today’s increasingly health conscious customers and meet your Corporate Social Responsibilities.

Our Nutrition Consultancy Services include:

Nutrition posters

We are now able to offer nutrition posters for download so that clients can print these themselves in the volumes they require. The collection comprises 5 posters each on a different nutrition topic, ranging from 'What to Eat and Why' to 'What to Avoid/Limit and Why' and 'Brain-Boosting Fats'. Posters come in A2, A3 and A4 sizes and provide easy to assimilate nutrition advice for display at food outlets to help customers make healthy choices.

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Best Practice Nutrition Audits

To assess current standards and make practical, achievable recommendations to improve nutritional quality, working within your budget and capabilities. Through the Nutrition Audit we can enable you to achieve Food for the Brain accreditation.

“Food for the Brain accreditation has put nutrition back on the agenda at Ashridge. The process of working towards accreditation via the Nutritional Audit, together with staff training through workshops in the Commercial Application of Nutrition has given our chefs a new found respect for and interest in the subject and they are now always thinking about the best nutritional alternatives without compromising on taste or quality. This new found enthusiasm has been a big plus for Ashridge delegates, chefs and staff alike.”

Graham Rusling, Food Production Manager, Ashridge Business School

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Food for the Brain Accreditation

The Russell Partnership’s Nutrition Consultancy is able to exclusively offer accreditation by the educational charity Food for the Brain, a fast-growing national body established by the UK’s best-selling nutrition writer Professor Patrick Holford. This prestigious award reflects nutritional standards that help to optimise customers’ mental abilities and wellbeing, and is of particular relevance to the higher education, conferencing and corporate sectors, where energy levels, memory and learning abilities are paramount. Through our Best Practice Nutrition Audits we help you achieve accredited status to highlight and add credibility to your nutritional efforts.

“The Food for the Brain award is the benchmark for this industry as it actually links academic performance to the food served. The process has very much been one of improvement and education, as we have undertaken nutritional workshops for catering staff and our chefs have learnt that healthy food does not need to be bland or budget-busting.”

Ian Macaulay, Assistant Director (catering), The University of Edinburgh

Workshops on the Commercial Application of Nutrition

Aimed at everyone from chefs to managers, our popular workshops provide an easy to understand grounding in the basic principles of nutrition as well as practical tools to improve menus and source better quality products. We run both open workshops and in-house events to enable you to train large numbers of staff.

Feedback from workshop attendees:

• “This event will help us take a vital step further forward by providing food that is not only healthy, but positively helps people...Our chefs now understand even better than ever how to build appealing menus which pro-actively help the business of learning and understanding.”
• “SO refreshing to listen to articulate speakers!”
• “Absolutely brilliant! Extremely useful and interesting. Thank you very, very much!”
• “Excellent information overall – really informative and useful application to the workplace.”

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Other products and services

We have developed a number of products to support our clients’ increasing desire and need to improve nutritional standards, from posters and brochures on healthy eating to guides for students and conference delegates on how to maximise energy, memory and learning potential and plasma screen presentations. Please contact us for more information on these products and how else we can support your business. Our expert consultants regularly lecture on the subjects of nutrition and commercial catering and can also be hired to speak at your own events. Email us for details

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Note:
7.5% of fees from sales to Food for the Brain accredited institutions will be donated to Food for the Brain’.
(registered charity number 1116438)