Thanks to Arja Lyytikäinen, SAPERE board member, for sharing this very interesting news:
“Very nice article just published to be added around the scientific evidence for Sapere – sensory food education during the life span (not only for children); narrow selection of foodstuffs, unbalanced diet due to neophobia is associated with poorer nutrition and risk of NCDs. Sapere – food education, as we all know, could be the solution to help people to eat more varied and have a better diet.”
In American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, June/2019: Food neophobia associates with poorer dietary quality, metabolic risk factors, and increased disease outcome risk in population-based cohorts in a metabolomics study
The «train the trainers»-programme and Sapere member, The Norwegian Taste School is Norways candidate in one of the awards in Embla Nordic Food Awards 2019.
«The Norwegian tasting school», Smaksskulen, was started by the Norwegian former Bocuse d’Or chef and TV personality Arne Brimi, and is run by The Norwegian Heritage Foundation. Since 2012, The Norwegian tasting school has trained more than 1000 teachers in schools and kindergartens , and has through this reached out to over 100 000 children and youths in Norway.
The tasting school has benefitted greatly from being a hub in the Sapere International Network. In 2016 we proudly hosted the annual Sapere Symposium in Vågå, Norway. Now, Smaksskulen is nominated for Embla Nordic Food Awards 2019 in the category «Nordic food for children and youth». An award who goes to «a person or an organization, who has developed an idea or a concept which notably has contributed to develop future generation knowledge and skills in relation to Nordic food and food culture».
Academic leader of Norsk Smaksskule, Dr Einar Risvik, says this about the program’s nomination for the Embla Nordic Food Prize 2019. – It shows that it is important to take our children’s food culture seriously. They are our future, and the vitality of our culture depend on their willingness to eat and like food that does good for us and our planet. Learning through our senses is the only way and food is the perfect teaching medium. The EMBLA nomination is an acknowledgement the importance of tasting schools and the role for implementation of a sustainable Nordic food culture. General Manager of the Norwegian taste school, Tor Valdvik, says that they are extremely proud to be nominated for this prestigious award. – This shows that our work is noticed not only in Norway, but also across national borders. Nordic food culture is the basis for what we want to convey about healthy and sustainable food and dietary habits.
The prize will be awarded during a ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on Saturday 1. of June 2019
From 29th to 31st March 2019, for the 20th Senlis Garden salon (in Oise), organised by the Saint Fiacre Brotherhood (Gardeners), SAPERE Taste Classes took part with a workshop about “Earthy Mrs Potato”.
3/ Riddles about the colours of potato flesh, followed by cutting up the potatoes, and visual description. The aim: to engage the children on the appearance of foods, and expectations they might have after first seeing foods.
4/ Blind tasting of 3 purees: 1 purple, 2 yellow (including one that’s sweeter). Guess which one is the purple puree? Most often, the tasters associate the purple colour with the sweetest taste. Then, focus on taste perceptions and preferences. The aim: to engage children on psychological associations between tastes and colours.
January 18th 2019 Sapere International together with the Estonian Nutrition Advisors Association (ETNÜ) arranged a one day workshop with an introduction to the Sapere method and how it can be used in the kindergarten setting.
Most of the 18 participants where members of ETNÜ and representatives from a kindergarten interested to pilot the method in Estonia also participated.
Stina Algotson from Sapere International held the workshop.
Sapere training in Tallin – January 2019
ETNÜ’s goal is to unite and represent nutrition advisors as an organisation. ETNÜ’s nutritional advisors have been formally educated. ETNÜ also spreads nutritional information and raises awareness among the population to have healthy eating habits in order to stay healthy. Contact info@toitumisnoustajad.ee
Les Blouses Roses (the Pink Blouses) visits homes for elderly people and hospitalised children and adults and takes the fight against loneliness through playful and creative activities. The association has developed a specific tool, The Sensory suitcase, allowing people to reconnect to the tastes and smells of their childhood and to develop their five senses.
Our French member, Sapere Les Classes du Goût (Sapere taste Classes), has just signed a partnership with les Blouses Roses including an offer to the volunteers of the association to follow sensory education training.
The education offer – for the moment limited to the region Rhone-Alpes – aims to train and implement activities connected to our five senses and the Sensory suitcase with the target group children and elderly persons in hospitals and in EHPAD (establishments of homes for elderly, dependent persons).
On behalf of the Sapere International board, I would like to wish all of you in our Sapere network a happy and healthy 2019.
The next boardmeeting will be held March 11th and we are planning for a Sapere Symposia in October 2019.
Keep posted for more information.
Jason O’Rourke, Stina Algoston, Caroline Reverdy, Einar Risvik, Bee Wilson
A board meeting hosted in Washingborough by our newest boardmember Jason O’Rourke.
With Bee Wilson informing us about the (great) progress of Flavour School UK, and a visit to Washingborough Academy and their garden.
Mandag starter vi Norsk Smaksskule 2018/19 og i den sammenheng tenkte vi det var på tide å dele dette intervjuet med Einar Risvik. Under Stiftelsen Norsk Kulturarvs jubileumsseminar i vår, var Norsk Smaksskules egen Einar Risvik en av innlederne med foredraget "Norge – et land verdt å besøke". I den sammenheng ble Risvik intervjuet om sine tanker om mat, smak og selvfølgelig…. Norsk Smaksskule 😀
