A new scientific report highlighting the success of South Korea’s national senior-friendly food industry strategy claims the initiative can improve frailty, nutrition, and malnutrition rates.
South Korea has introduced an ‘S mark’ certification for food products that have undergone review and been approved as elderly-friendly, with products for the ageing population being dubbed a ‘future food’ category for the country.
Senior-friendly future: South Korea lays out governance for elderly-friendly foods based on ingredient ratios South Korea has finally laid out the governance rules for ‘elderly-friendly foods’ based on main ingredient ratios, with experts believing that this will have a significant impacts on a number of categories.
South Korea first created the elderly-friendly foods category in 2018, amending the local Food Code to establish this as a separate section.
Here, elderly-friendly food refers to foods manufactured and processed to have physical properties suitable to aid the elderly to eat or digest it, or to have nutritional profiles suitable for the elderly.
“[The elderly-friendly foods category has been established to] improve the convenience of intake as well as nutritional provision for the elderly, as this group may [face challenges] due to weakened chewing or swallowing or impaired nutritional intake due to this,” the South Korean Ministr
More choices for dysphagia patients: Singapore firm to expand snacks and breakfast options for seniors Singapore firm Silverconnect will focus on expanding its snacks and breakfast options for dysphagia patients for this year, including a pureed pineapple tart in time for the Chinese New Year.
Founded in 2017, Silverconnect specialises in developing pureed food products for individuals suffering from dysphagia – a condition which makes it difficult for to swallow food.
The target audience include seniors who are usually over the age of 65, stroke and cancer patients, as well as those with difficulties chewing and swallowing food.
Trademarked as Gentle Foods, its current range of products include ready-to-eat bento sets, pureed fish, vegetable, chicken, pre-thickened drinks, snacks and desserts, and oral care mouth spray.