Food industry expo at LCU to raise awareness on healthy food

The Food Technology project by senior students at the Lebanese Canadian University (LCU) nutrition and meal planning specialty was adapted into an annual fair where students can display the different stages of food processing. In application, students sought to invent new healthy meals conceived from ordinary food products in order to raise awareness among Lebanese consumers on methods of making and benefiting from healthy foods. The exhibition, organized under the supervision of head of the Syndicate of Nutritionists in Lebanon, Christelle Bashi Jad3un, was inaugurated yesterday at the Main Hall in LCU campus in the Keserwan town of Aintura. The expo was the result of research by students, in collaboration with numerous local food factories famed for producing assortments of dairies, cheeses, beans, chips, sausages, halawa, olives and oil, pastries, water, wine, coffee and arak. Students focused in their research on the ingredients of selected food materials and their conformity with the quality standards recognized in Lebanon. They also emphasized the natural and healthy constituents advised by nutrition specialists. (Al Diyar, December 2, 2016)