At the Trung Trac Primary School in Vietnam's capital Ho Chi Minh City, a "School Meal Project" was launched with an aim to standardize school meal in primary schools.
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The Ho Chi Minh City Education and Training Department and Ajinomoto Vietnam Company have cooperated with the Ho Chi Minh City Nutrition Center to promote the "School Meal Project" since 2012.
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The aim was to improve the nutrition and health status of students at primary schools in the city.
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The Ajinomoto Group is a global foods company offering Ajinomoto, an umami seasoning, and varieties of seasonings and processed food products in 130 countries worldwide.
Ajinomoto Vietnam is not only committed to delivering deliciousness to homes across Vietnam, but is working to make a contribution to the health and well being of all Vietnamese.
"I noticed that students were changing their eating habits. They can eat more vegetables now. Parents are also happy that children share about school lunch, even advise their parents by explaining how the food is useful for their health. I'm also happy about the project menu, because it helped to reduce cooking time and the workload of the kitchen staff," said Pham Thi Hoa, the Principal of the Trung Trac Primary School.
Teachers and nursemaids are encouraging students to improve their awareness of nutrition through a program called "three minutes to change awareness".
In fact, Ajinomoto Vietnam has partnered with Hanoi University and the National Institute for Nutrition, Vietnam, and introduced the country's first nutrition certification to Hanoi University.
The company works with the university and the institute to support the development of nutrition specialists, for promoting better health and the well-being of people in Vietnam.
According to the plan, the Ajinomoto Vietnam Company will cooperate with relevant organizations to expand this project to other provinces in order to contribute to improving nutrition standards in Vietnam.
To provide healthy food, global representative electronics company Toshiba is now developing vegetables at its Yokusuka factory.
Called "Clean room farm Yokosuka" it cultivates 10 kinds of vegetables inside this factory. They include Endive, Lettuce and Swiss Chard - mainly leaf vegetables.
Cultivated technology and method by rich experience of Toshiba, fluorescent light for plant cultivation, solution technology of air and water are utilized.
That capacity is available to produce safe and relieved vegetable three million roots, excluding agricultural chemicals annually.
Those vegetables are cultivated in aseptic room. Thus they are preserved in long term without spoiling by bacteria.
Those crops are suitable for fresh vegetable salad and will be shipped to the super market and food process company.
Furthermore, this fresh vegetable factory will be developed abroad.
"I would like to promote to ASEAN country with building factory. Under cooperation with local partner Toshiba cultivate fresh vegetable according to its own recipe to make foreign people healthier. We just started from the production of vegetable, and in the near future, Toshiba is willing to provide factory solution to South East Asia, Middle East and Russia," said Hiroshi Ishimura, General Manager, New Business Development Division, Toshiba Corporation.
Currently, the operation ratio of this factory is 25 per cent which will be raised to 100 per cent in this fiscal year.
From now on, the factory will develop herbs and vegetables to be shipped to the market, aiming annual sales amount of 300 Million yen, which is equivalent to 26 thousand US dollar.
