Foodvalley Champions Food & Health

During the last couple of months the three Food & Health jury members came together to select the three nominees for the Foodvalley Champions Food & Health 2020 award. Participants were evaluated on (1) the innovative character of the company and (2) the impact and innovative character of (their) recent innovation(s). The winners will be

champion award

During the last couple of months the three Food & Health jury members came together to select the three nominees for the Foodvalley Champions Food & Health 2020 award. Participants were evaluated on (1) the innovative character of the company and (2) the impact and innovative character of (their) recent innovation(s). The winners will be announced during the Foodvalley Summit on 13 October, from 16:35 – 17:00 CET.

Meet the nominees

grunten

 

Grünten brings greens to the breakfast table with their “Veggie Oats”: vegetable based oats, in pie based flavors, delivering 25% of the daily-recommended amount of vegetables.

 

 

 

fooditive

 

Fooditive valorizes the waste streams of apple and pear processing, converting the residual fructose into the natural sweetener keto-fructose, which tastes like sugar with zero calories.

 

 

 

verdify

 

Verdify develops innovative software for enabling personalized nutrition in the food industry. It is designed to make a seamless match between personal dietary needs and online food offerings.

 

 

 

 

Meet the jury


Judith van der Horst – Innovation Manager Food & Health at Foodvalley NL.
Judith van der Horst focuses on connecting knowledge, innovation and business in the domain of Food & Health. After obtaining her PhD, she worked for nearly 12 years in R&D at food industry multinationals. Judith continued her career as R&D Manager of Wageningen Food & Biobased Research. She was appointed Theme Director Food & Health for Applied Research by the TKI Top Sector Agri & Food and, in 2018, she became Manager Operations of Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation and in the summer of 2020, Judith started as Innovation Manager Food & Health at Foodvalley NL.

 

Iris Bogers – Senior Product and Proposition Manager at Menzis
Iris Bogers studied International Business Communications at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Her career began with various marketing positions at a number of organizations and later as a consultant at Berenschot. She is currently employed by health insurer Menzis, where she is Strategic Product and Proposition Manager. From an organization-wide perspective she creates value by identifying which of the latest market developments have real potential and translating them into new products and services. She is working on Menzis’ online program SamenGezond aimed at facilitating sustainable lifestyle changes. SamenGezond stimulates people to lead a healthy lifestyle and helps them to make healthy choices.

 

Chantal Goenee – Corporate Social Responsibility Team at Lidl Nederland
Chantal Goenee’s passion is to help consumers make more healthy and sustainable choices. She has studied health sciences and consumer behavior in Wageningen and is currently part of the Corporate Social Responsibility team at Lidl Netherlands. The mission of Lidl is to make sustainability and a healthy lifestyle affordable and accessible to everyone. Chantal and her colleagues approach this in many ways: from selling the best quality fruits and vegetables for the lowest prices to reducing sugar, saturated fat and salt in their products and introducing novel and healthy product innovations. She is delighted to be on the Food & Health jury and is looking forward to meeting the Foodvalley nominees.

 

 

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