Leading UK Food Wholesaler Brakes Encourages Plant-Forward Meals in Educational Settings
Brakes , the UK’s leading food wholesale supplier, has rolled out an initiative encouraging education caterers to serve plant-forward meals. The business is offering a set of resources to help school, college, and university caterers understand the benefits and opportunities of including more plant-based ingredients in…
“There is a lot of pressure on food operations to keep costs down, and plant-forward is a great way of doing that, as it can cut down on the need for expensive centre-of-plate protein options.”
Even so, taking a plant-forward approach provides sizeable sustainability benefits and cost savings without entirely eliminating animal components. While Brakes’ plant-forward resources for educators emphasise whole foods like beans and vegetables, the wholesaler also offers meat alternatives such as those made by Moving Mountains and THIS . © THIS “Virtuous circle” Brakes is also supporting the Menus of Change initiative, which began in the US to promote quality plant-forward catering.
Developed by The Culinary Institute of America and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the initiative has now made its way to the UK and is increasingly being adopted in universities.
The news comes as the Plant-Based Universities campaign sees growing success in the UK, with the universities of Birmingham , Stirling , and Cambridge among those who have voted for fully plant-based menus.
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