这些健康、实惠的食物味道很棒
“我们试图同时解决几个问题,营养学教授爱丽丝·安默曼说, 好碗创始人.
电影中的场景 爱丽丝安默曼 kitchen is part business venture, part public health experiment, part friendly culinary competition. That’s because Ammerman’s home also serves as a test kitchen for Equiti食物她创办的创业公司. It’s where she 和 colleagues tinker with recipes for the company’s product called 好碗, healthy frozen meals locally sourced 和 made in North Carolina.
“I joke that I have the distinction of having created our most popular 和 our least popular recipe,安默曼笑着说, the Mildred Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at UNC-Chapel山’s 吉林斯全球公共卫生学院 也是 UNC Center for 健康 Promotion 和 Disease Prevention. 最受欢迎的是 鸡肉卷饼碗, 和 a lot of it came from doing taste testing 和 experimenting on my children over time. The least popular — although it’s hanging in there — is what we call the 寒冷的混合.”
The 寒冷的混合 bowl epitomizes Equiti Food’s multi-faceted company mission: Provide everyone access to healthy, good-tasting 和 affordable food — while helping small local farmers sustain a living. “We’re thinking about farm sales in the winter when produce availability is a lot less,安默曼说. “你可以使用一些耐寒的作物——卷心菜, 甜土豆, 羽衣甘蓝, onions — 和 I wanted to come up with a recipe that put them all together.”
碗有十几种口味，从 卡罗莱纳烤鸡 和 香肠胡椒粉 to 大ai的大烧烤碗 和 农家乐通心粉和奶酪. The issues Equiti食物 addresses are as diverse as the ingredients in its bowls.
“我们试图同时解决几个问题, such as nutrition security — which includes access to food 和 the fact that it’s healthy,安默曼说. "预防慢性疾病, offering economic development opportunities for small farmers 和 reducing food waste are things we work on, 所以我们的重点是多管齐下的.”
长期营养学教授, 安默曼看到了食物的融合性, health 和 economic challenges surface in her academic re太阳城娱乐城. Those findings led her to launch Equiti食物 as a startup company in 2018.
“I’ve focused on chronic disease 和 health disparities in low-income populations. And over 和 over again the problem comes up that people don’t have good access to healthy food that also tastes good 和 is culturally familiar,”她说。. “So our team has been working on what we call the Med-South Diet, which is the Mediterranean diet adapted for Southeastern taste preferences 和 food availability.”
好碗’ Med-South frozen meals use generous amounts of fruits, 蔬菜和全谷物, 同时注入健康的脂肪和油. “We do taste testing 和 develop recipes that aren’t perceived as weird,” Ammerman said. “Our favorite compliment is when people say it doesn’t even taste healthy.”
Ammerman faces the challenge of offering affordable, locally sourced 和 tasty food. 实现这一目标需要建立战略伙伴关系, 比如韦弗街市场, which prepares the bowls at its Food House Market in Hillsborough. Equiti食物 taps into Weaver Street’s network of local farmers 和 producers in North Carolina. This enables Equiti食物 to get most 好碗 ingredients within the state, promoting local employment while maintaining high st和ards of quality 和 flavor.
Customers can buy 好碗 directly at all four Triangle 韦弗街街市 地点及地点 达勒姆合作公寓市场. The bowls are also available on the 好碗 website, via 农产品箱 和 成熟的复兴, 在市场上, cafes 和 vending machines on several North Carolina university campuses, 包括 UNC-Chapel山.
