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Healthy Choice Award
We are all eating out more often, making these meals an important part of our diet. On average one in every six meals in the UK is consumed outside the home.
At the same time we are increasingly aware of the impact of our diet on our health. Messages about reducing our intake of salt, sugar and fat have had an impact and many of us know that making small changes can make a big difference.
The Brighton & Hove Healthy Choice Award has been developed to respond to this.
What is the Healthy Choice Award?
Who has a Healthy Choice Award?
What is Healthy Choice catering?
I'm a catering business - how will the Healthy Choice Award help my business?
What steps do I need to take to get a Healthy Choice Award?
Useful documents for the Healthy Choice Award
What is the Healthy Choice Award?
The Healthy Choice Award is based on general healthy eating principles. Not everything on the menu needs to be healthy for a restaurant or café to apply. The award is designed to help customers easily identify healthy food choices when eating out - the Healthy Choice Award window sticker is the sign of healthier food!
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Who has the Healthy Choice Award?
- Gold Award Holders - 75% of the menu items are healthy choice options
- Silver Award Holders - 50% of the menu items are healthy choice options
- Bronze Award Holders - 35% of the menu items are healthy choice options
What is Healthy Choice catering?
Working in partnership with restaurants and cafés, nutritionists help develop healthy choices on their menus: from simple changes like offering salad dressings on the side and fresh fruit desserts, to changing cooking methods to increase nutritional content. For more information see the Caterers' Guidance PDF [4.53mb]
I'm a catering business - how will the Healthy Choice Award help my business?
As people are becoming more health conscious, it makes sound business sense to offer healthier food options in a healthy, clean environment.
Benefits to your business include:
- Helping your customers identify you as having healthy options on your menu
- Meeting customer demand for healthier food
- City-wide publicity of the scheme (at no cost to you), including:
- Healthy Choice Award window sticker & award certificate to display
- Advertising of the award scheme in local media
- Business name and contact details on Healthy Choice Award website
- Easy to apply - our nutritionists can help you with the process
- Free nutritional advice to help you provide healthy menu options
What steps do I need to take to get a Healthy Choice Award?
Application process
- Register interest in the Healthy Choice Award by email or phone-call or send in tear-off strip from business flyer.
- Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC) Food Safety Team checks hygiene standards.
- Visit to business arranged - nutritionist completes application form with catering manager or business fills in application form prior to visit and sends it to BHCC.
- Nutritionist analyses menu, clearly marking Healthy Choice options.
- Recommendations made for any required menu changes to receive the award or to improve award level.
- BHCC issues business with Healthy Choice Award plus promotional material (window sticker, award certificate, caterers' guidance, menu labels and menu insert).
Useful documents:
Healthy Choice Award: Application form [PDF 88kb]
Healthy Choice Award: Guidance notes [PDF 74kb]
Healthy Choice Award: Caterers' guidance [PDF 4.53mb]
Healthy Choice Award: Nurseries Guidance [PDF 660kb]
Healthy Choice Award: Breakfast Clubs Application form [PDF 69kb]
Healthy Choice Award: Breakfast Clubs Recommendations [PDF 653kb]
For further information, please contact the Food Safety Team at Brighton & Hove City Council on (01273) 292161 or ehl.food@brighton-hove.gov.uk
