British Nutrition Foundation (BNF)

Profile

BNF's vision is of everyone being able to access healthy, sustainable diets and our role in this is the translation of evidence-based nutrition science in engaging and actionable ways for a range of stakeholders. While much of BNF's work is in the UK, we have a strong track record of engaging in European work, including a nework of European Nutrition Foundations and a number of EC funded projects, as well as work related international nutrition issues.

Competences & Capabilities

Main areas of specialisation and technological expertise are:

• Nutrition science, including diet-disease relationships, nutrition and health at different lifestages, sustainable diets and regulatory issues
• Education on nutrition and food, see www.foodafactoflife.org.uk for full details
• Communication and dissemiation including media relations, social media, web communications and events (online and face to face)
• Food industry engagement, - BNF has approx 50 corporate members including major retailers and manufacturers