Healthy eating
Customers are looking for healthier options when eating out, so offer a mix of naturally healthy and creative alternatives to make the most of this business opportunity. Brakes offers great tasting, quality products to help you create healthier menus. What’s more, with the addition of our innovative own brand products, developed specifically to meet nutritional guidelines, you can rest assured Brakes have healthy eating covered.
Brakes Healthier Choices range is a unique selection of quality prepared products that meet strict nutritional criteria with our quality standards.
Download our chart which shows the proportions and types of foods needed for a healthy balanced diet.
Brakes reviews and improves its products working closely with organisations, including the Food Standards Agency, on important health and nutrition issues.
Three delicious nutritious recipe alternatives; including Chinese hoi sin chicken, Braised stuffed savoy cabbage and a winter vegetable soup.
A healthier margin
Research increasingly shows that consumers want more healthier choices on menus and additional information about their food when dining out of home. This provides an ideal opportunity for caterers to improve sales and boost margins.
• 67% want healthier choices on menus, this is seen as a growing trend for the future*
• When making food choices, over 1 in 5 consumers say fat content is important and almost 1 in 5 say calorie content is important – with the statistics higher for women**
• Consumers want clear and easy-to-use information on menus, similar to that on food packaging in retail***
*Sources: * Allegra Strategies 2009, ** OnTrack 2009, *** FSA Jan 2009
Peace of mind
Our dedicated and expert team works tirelessly to ensure that every product ordered from us comes with the assurance of complete traceability throughout the supply chain, unquestionable sourcing integrity, and safe product handling.
All Brakes own brand products have nutritional information labels to ensure our customers have the details required to plan menus and calculate nutrition, including calories.
Planning healthier menus
Our development chefs and marketing teams offer support, information and advice to our customers. Our brochures, webcasts, serving suggestions and recipes are all designed to help you with creative and healthy menu planning.