ISS Healthcare to replace all back of house butter products with Flora Original

April 4, 2011 - PRLog -- Leading healthcare caterer, ISS Facility Services Healthcare has made a huge commitment to replace all butter products back of house, with Flora Original from March 1, 2011.

In an ongoing effort to look after the health of its customers, all 42 healthcare catering sites will be using 6x2kg units of Flora Original in all recipes that contain butter back of house.

Andy Jones, service development director for ISS Healthcare, comments: “As a major healthy food initiative, we want to reduce the consumption of saturated fat by 615kg over the next 12 months. This equates to the weight of 10,603 chocolate bars!

“From March 1, butter will no longer be used in any forms of cooking, baking, or spreading back of house. We chose Flora Original because it contains 78% less saturated fat than butter and is an easy way to reduce the amount of saturated fats in meal portions, without compromising on taste. Our customers, chefs and patients can be assured that Flora works just as well as butter in cooking, not just on taste grounds, but for aroma and quality of ingredients as well.”


Clare Logan, marketing manager for Flora, comments about the switch: “Maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become an issue of huge importance. You can’t go a day without reading a newspaper or magazine that doesn’t mention the rise in heart disease and increasing obesity rates in the UK. Consumers are becoming much more interested in eating healthier food out of home.

“Caterers need to take responsibility and look for healthier alternatives to traditional ingredients high in saturated fat and salt. Butter has high levels of saturated fat, which is a bad fat that can increase blood cholesterol. We are delighted with ISS Healthcare’s initiative to replace butter back of house with Flora Original, which is a genuine healthier alternative to butter.”

ISS Healthcare will continue to offer Flora and 10g butter portions in its retail establishments and on patient menus to ensure it’s catering for all consumer choices.

Andy Jones adds: “We hope this initiative will help improve the health and wellbeing of our customers we are proud to cater for.”

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For more information about Unilever Food Solutions and FLORA products please contact the Unilever Food Solutions Careline on 0800 783 3728 or visit www.unileverfoodsolutions.co.uk


Notes to editors
ISS Facility Services - Healthcare is the Healthcare Division in the UK of the global ISS Group, providing full Facility Services to the NHS and private hospitals, employing around 13,000 people in more than 300 units across the country. To view the full range of services offered by ISS in the UK visit www.uk.issworld.com http://www.uk.issworld.com/

For further press information, please contact:
Stephanie Lowe, William Murray Communications
T: 020 8256 1360
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E: stephanie@williammurray.co.uk

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