Nutrition and dietary support
As a food and drink provider, you may have to meet a variety of different, sometimes complex nutritional and dietary needs, over and above your legal duties around allergens. These could be related to age, a medical condition, or simply ensuring the body has all it needs to stay healthy and functioning properly.
Our in-house nutritionist and sector specialist development chefs have compiled a range of resources, including recipes, menus plans, factsheets and training materials to help you and your team deliver nutritionally-balanced food across all meal occasions and needs.
For specific guidance for catering teams in care homes and primary and secondary schools; please follow the links below
Nutrition support for care homes
Training, advice and information covering all the major health and dietary conditions affecting care home residents.
- Free accredited care home training online
- IDDSI training video
- Factsheets on topics including diabetes, Coeliac Disease, Bone Health and many more
Nutrition guidance for schools
Menus and dish ideas created by our specialist development chefs, in consultation with our in-house nutritionist, helping you provide varied, nutritionally balanced food every day.
- Primary: Three-week, Food Plan-compliant menu planner and recipes
- Secondary: Three-week, Food Plan-compliant menu planner and recipes, including food-to-go
Free accredited care home training online
- The only course of its kind in the UK to be accredited by the Association for Nutrition (AfN), the national regulator for nutritionists
- Designed specifically for care home training
- Four modules created by Brakes in-house nutritionist and other care specialists
- Provides accredited evidence of professional development for kitchen teams
- Self-service, online format allows you to work through the modules in your own time, at your own pace
To register, you need to be as customer. Please email nutrition@brake.co.uk and include your customer account number.
