Care Homes Products

Our products

We are able to offer over 200 dishes that cater for a wide range of dietary needs and meet care home standards. They are prepared with the highest care using quality ingredients, with recipes developed by our experienced chefs in state-of-the-art premises.

Our products come in multi portion, twin portion and individual pack sizes for maximum flexibility and accurate portion control, whilst offering choice to clients. We can supply a whole meal provision for breakfast, lunch and supper or a part solution with main courses, accompaniments and desserts, including a wide range of vegetarian dishes.

apetito's range of pureed and soft diet individual meals have been developed to taste great and contain the essential ingredients to maintain health and wellbeing. Special dietary needs are also catered for, examples of such being diabetic, lo fat, gluten free and moderate salt diets.

We understand the diversity of meals required in today’s society and for this reason provide an extensive range of authentic ethnic meals.

We promise that all our meals:

• Are nutritionally balanced
• Contain no hydrogenated fats
• Contain no added Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)

Frozen for Freshness

 

"As any chef will tell you, a meal is at is freshest the moment it has been prepared. That's when we freeze it."

 There is often much ill-informed emotion around the fresh versus frozen debate. However, it should be remembered that frozen food is often, in reality "fresher" and more nutritious than so called fresh or chilled food. As food is frozen quickly and early in the production process, flavours are locked in and vitamin content is retained.

• Safer than cook chill
• Easy to handle
• Potential cost savings
• Longer product shelf life
• Fewer deliveries required
• Flexible menu planning
• Reduced wastage
• Consistent quality product
• Less temperature sensitive

Ease of Preparation

Cooking our products is quick, easy and convenient. Meals can be taken straight from the freezer and regenerated in any conventional oven or trolley, keeping costs to a minimum. The simplicity of our cook freeze system allows any care home to provide hot, tasty and nutritious meals every day.

We work closely with trolley manufacturers to ensure that our food is always at its best at the point of service. We can help you with advice, support and training to ensure that you get the best possible results from our meals

Nutritional Modelling

We can assist in menu planning and can provide you with access to apetito Nutridata - a unique and easy to use online resource providing up to date and detailed nutritional specifications for all our products. We also use market leading nutritional and menu planning software=

Food Safety

apetito's Positive Release system is the most comprehensive in the market place and ensures that products are only despatched to the customer once all microbiological testing is successfully completed.

All meals are automatically held in quarantine at the end of the manufacturing process. A sample from each batch is then sent to our Campden Accredited Laboratory where no less than eight microbiological tests are carried out over a three day period. Only at this point are meals delivered, offering total peace of mind to our customers, who can feel assured that our meals are not only tasty and nutritious, but also completely safe to eat.