The first in a series on gut health, hear from one of the most exciting people working in this field, Tim Spector. A renowned Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and author of The Diet Myth, join Tim from Kings College, London as he explores the relationship between the microbiome, health and wellbeing and what this means for the food and drink industry and consumers.

Tim discusses what the microbiome is, what we can do to improve our gut health, what potential benefits we could see from improving our gut health, and what exciting research is taking place that suggests good gut health is a way to prevent disease.

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The first in a series of sports nutrition podcasts, with this epdisode in partnership with Volactive, a panel discuss the growing world of sports nutrition, and how a new group of older consumers are driving that growth.

Lending their considerable insight to the panel are Mel Billows, Head of Marketing and Consumer Insights, Volac, Mike Hughes, Head of Research and Insight, FMCG Gurus, Jo Dell, Category Development Controller, Sci-Mx, and Kate Percy, Founder, Go Faster Food.

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The second episode in a series of podcasts on food tech focuses on investment and the recipe start-ups need to succeed. Tomer Strikovsky, Investor, ETF Partners, Milena Lazarevska, Head of Future Brands, Sainsbury's, and Phil Verey, Director, Winnow Solutions provide insight from their valuable experience.

Join them as they reveal why food tech is so attractive for investment, how start-ups can find the investment they need, and what steps can help them succeed.

Shoppers are more conscious of the impact food and drink packaging has on the environment and want to make sustainable choices for a better tomorrow. Our panel look at what the food and drink industry is doing to help, and what more needs to be done to ensure a better future. Take an in-depth look at how brands and retailers are reducing their plastic waste, what is the next generation of packaging, and how changing consumer attitudes will shape the packaging of the future.

 

Joining host Jo Kirkland are Caroline Ottoy, Food Service Director at Planet Organic, Catherine Conway, Founder of Unpackaged, and Ian Bates, MD at Reel Brands, to discuss where we are today and where we will be in the future as we look to become more sustainable. 

In this episode we dive into the food tech trends and global advances in food tech innovations. We’ll be hearing from industry experts at the forefront of meeting the demand for sustainable food ecosystems, the impact of food innovation on retailers and sharing valuable advice for start-up business’ looking to scale up in the industry. 

Joining Table Talk’s Jo to discuss this and so much more is Chris Fung who is the ex-CEO of Crussh Fit Food & Juice Bars and now a NED/Board Advisor/Investor in a number of disruptive high-growth potential Food and Food Tech businesses. As well as Alessio D’Antino CEO of Forward Fooding, the world’s first collaborative platform for the food and beverage industry, and finally Zina Mavroeidi, Managing Director of e-Fresh.gr, the largest and most comprehensive online supermarket in the region of Attica in Greece.

This episode focuses on the clean-label and plant-based food revolutions. We investigate what clean label means, how consumers want to see fewer and more recognisable ingredients on labels, and the rise of plant-based foods.

Joining Table Talk host Jo Kirkland are Carole Bingley, Technical Specialist at RSSL who help world-leading brands and SMEs develop new products, Jenifer Pardoe, founder and CEO of Plant-Based To Business who specialise in Plant-based product development and the founders of Plantifull, Adam and Becca Courtenay. 

Food and nutrition continue to transform the world we live in, our behaviours and our health. However, many still struggle to make healthy living a permanent lifestyle change. We’ll be looking at much more than simply going on a diet to lose weight, but in fact why we find permanent behaviour change so challenging when we want to improve our health. We’ll be asking what’s the scale of the obesity problem? What external factors impact our behaviour? What ways are producers, retailers and nutritionists helping?

 

Joining our host Jo Kirkland to answer all of this and more is Ed Gardiner, Behaviour Design Lead at Warwick Business School; Jenny Rosborough, a Registered Nutritionist; Michael Beber, Director at Health Action Campaign; Karis Betts, Health Information Manager, Cancer Research UK and Moira Howie, Nutrition & Health Manager at Waitrose and Partners. 

 

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