Consumer demands regarding food are becoming higher and change rapidly. Our food must not only be tastier but at the same time we expect an increasing positive contribution to our health. This has advantages for individual consumers and for society; healthier people need less health care.
Plant Research International has available the knowledge and the infrastructure to gain insight in the contribution that our food can make to our health. For this we cooperate with academic hospitals, multinational food companies, and official bodies. With our advanced metabolomics, proteomics and other genomics facilities we identify components with a positive or negative effect on our health.
This knowledge enables us to develop plant material that makes an additional contribution to health. Dieticians will continue to give more and more personalised food advice. We help food companies in developing healthier food for the public at large and for special client groups.
Growing food crops, working in agriculture in general, and being in a natural environment make a positive contribution to human health. It is not surprising that the number of ‘health care farms’ in the Netherlands has increased strongly in recent years. Plant Research International investigates the perspectives of health care farming, in cooperation with and for care insurance companies, medical professionals and authorities.