Compass in Scotland, part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has committed to working with the Scottish Government to support the voluntary commitments set out for caterers in its Supporting Healthy Choices industry-wide framework.
Innovative steps towards healthier lifestyles
Health and wellbeing is at the very heart of Compass Group UK & Ireland and the business has taken a series of innovative steps over the last few years to help millions of consumers choose healthier lifestyles every day.
These initiatives include investing over £1 million in systems to analyse recipes and menus, rolling out nutritional labelling, helping over 6,000 colleagues learn about health and wellbeing and leading the way in reducing the amount of salt and saturated fat in its food.
Know Your Food programme
Compass’ approach is encapsulated in its Know Your Food programme. Know Your Food is a platform created by Compass to inform consumers about healthy living and sustainable sourcing. Compass teams in Scotland and across the wider business win numerous awards for championing healthy eating in the food service industry. Compass in Scotland will now look to maintain this momentum and take its commitment further through Supporting Healthy Choices and continued support of the Healthy Living Award.
Ongoing commitment to help consumers
Wilson Barrie, Chair of Compass in Scotland, said; “As caterers, we have a really important role to play in helping and encouraging people to eat a healthy, balanced diet. Our achievements to date, both in Scotland and across our wider business, demonstrate our ongoing commitment to providing information that helps our consumers maintain a balanced diet. We welcome initiatives that keep health and wellbeing at the top of the agenda and we’re looking forward to working with the Scottish Government to take the Supporting Healthy Choices framework forward.”
For full details of the Supporting Healthy Choices Framework click here
Compass Group UK & Ireland’s commitment to health and wellbeing has seen the business:
Remove all artificial trans-fats from its food
Replace butter with Flora Buttery to trim almost 100 tonnes of saturated fat from thousands of recipes
Redesign salt sachets to remove eight tonnes of salt from its supply chain
Nutritionally analysed 12,000 recipes and 17,000 product specifications
Roll out nutritional labelling to over 1,800 Compass sites
Provide e-learning training in health and wellbeing to more than 6,000 Compass employees
For full details of the Healthy Living Award click here
About Compass in Scotland
Compass in Scotland is firmly rooted throughout the country – from the Borders to the Shetland Islands – and has extensive experience covering a range of business sectors. For over 70 years clients and customers have trusted Compass in Scotland. Today, it operates in over 600 sites and employs more than 5,000 people throughout Scotland.