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On 29 January, Dialogic facilitated two workshops by Flanders’ Food at the Food Pilot in Melle. The first workshop focused on personalised nutrition at an individual level, while the second workshop centred on target group nutrition. These workshops are part of a series aimed at developing a roadmap for personalised nutrition. During the workshops, participants identified opportunities and threats, established a vision for 2030, and highlighted interesting subtopics. A third and fourth workshop will follow in a few weeks, focusing on developing concrete plans and actions.
Personalised group-level nutrition can involve specific types of food for elders, athletes, certain health conditions like coeliac disease and diabetes, or vegetarians. Personalising food at an individual level takes it a step further, tailoring food to meet the specific nutritional, medical needs, and preferences of a particular individual. An interesting recent development related to this is 3D food printing. The common thread among these topics is the food industry, with participants mainly representing the business sector.
The theme group for personalised nutrition within Flanders' Food (covering both topics) is still in its early stages, lacking a strategic framework with actions and plans for the future. Such a framework helps not only in engaging businesses, knowledge institutions, and governments towards ambitions in this domain but also in aligning, identifying, and implementing ongoing and new (even missing) actions and issues. Following the workshops, a Market and Technology Roadmap (MTR) will be developed. Dialogic has experience in the roadmap methodology and supports this process.