{"id":5910,"date":"2017-08-28T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purefoodnz.wpengine.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2023-08-02T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:39:13","slug":"puree-food-company-reshaping-eating-for-the-sick-and-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/blog\/puree-food-company-reshaping-eating-for-the-sick-and-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Puree food company reshaping eating for the sick and elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/innovation\/95979739\/puree-food-company-reshaping-eating-for-sick-and-elderly\">Stuff article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/innovation\/95979739\/puree-food-company-reshaping-eating-for-sick-and-elderly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sam-stuff-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-723\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elderly residents with eating difficulties at a Metlifecare\u200b retirement village are trialling a fresh way to serve up soft foods moulded in the shape of meat&nbsp;and vegetables.&nbsp;<br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Puree food company The&nbsp;Pure Food Co is selling sheets of the plastic moulds&nbsp;shaped as chicken drumsticks, steak fillets, carrots,&nbsp;peas to&nbsp;make its&nbsp;blended food more visually appealing.&nbsp;<br> <br> Director Sam Bridgewater&nbsp;said&nbsp;the company decided&nbsp;to investigate the moulds last year&nbsp;after a study&nbsp;from an Australian food mould company&nbsp;showed consumption of pureed&nbsp;food&nbsp;lifted by about 20 per cent if it looked visually appealing, especially in&nbsp;elderly women.<br> <br> Metlifecare&nbsp;food and beverage manager Gareth Carden&nbsp;said the 12 residents&nbsp;limited to soft food at Auckland&#8217;s The Orchards&nbsp;village had not suffered weight loss since chefs started reshaping their meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>READ MORE:<br> *&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/unlimited\/10659363\/Smooth-food-operators?rm=m\">Smooth food operators<\/a>&nbsp;<br> *&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/small-business\/67684136\/olympic-rower-george-bridgewater-directs-a-health-food-company?rm=m\">Olympic rower George Bridgewater directs a health food company<\/a>&nbsp;<br> *&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/life-style\/homed\/latest\/94834797\/Changing-face-of-retirement-villages-is-all-about-catering-to-new-demographic?rm=m\">Changing face of retirement villages is all about catering to new demographic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuff article Elderly residents with eating difficulties at a Metlifecare\u200b retirement village are trialling a fresh way to serve up soft foods moulded in the shape of meat&nbsp;and vegetables.&nbsp; Puree food company The&nbsp;Pure Food Co is selling sheets of the plastic moulds&nbsp;shaped as chicken drumsticks, steak fillets, carrots,&nbsp;peas to&nbsp;make its&nbsp;blended food more visually appealing.&nbsp; Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6776,"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions\/6776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepurefoodco.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}