This event is designed for business leaders and founders who are interested in how changing diets, sustainability imperatives and the latest nutrition science are shaping markets, consumer behaviour and future regulation.

About the Seminar

The talk will address the challenges and opportunities in the transition to healthier diets from sustainable sources. The shift towards a plant-rich diet would bring a range of health, environmental and economic benefits but do all plant based products offer health benefits? Separating fact from fiction, Aedín will share the latest evidence-based nutrition research on the importance of a plant-rich diet for a range of health outcomes and the role key constituents in plants called flavonoids may play in driving these benefits.

About our speaker
Professor Aedín Cassidy is Chair in Nutrition & Preventive Medicine and Director for Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University, Belfast. She is also Co-Director of the €35M Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems. Her research focuses on developing the evidence-base to support the transition to plant-rich diets and determining the relative importance of plant bioactive called flavonoids for health, leading clinical trials, combined with large population-based prospective data, bioavailability and mechanistic studies.