Standing against the disease with POYA by making 9 delicacies readily available
The AFA indicates that to cope with the pandemic and the prospect of extreme weather events that call for emergency food supplies, the AFA joined force with FIRDI and POYA chain stores in the development and promotion of disease-prevention food made with domestic agricultural ingredients. The finest food processors were invited to utilize domestic materials as primary ingredients to create disease- and disaster-prevention food packs, which are made to consumer preference in both taste and nutrition. Those products can either be consumed as everyday meals or used as emergency reserves, which come in handy during the pandemic or potential disasters and prepare the citizens for critical situations like diseases, disasters, and shortage while enabling the diverse use of domestic agricultural food.
The AFA explains that those disease-prevention food items were ranked on the following three criteria—marketing potential, ease of consumption, and health function. After preliminary and follow-up reviews and product adjustments, nine spotlight products from six food companies, namely, Ve Wong, UTC, D.E Chung Hua, Ou-Dean, Chou Chin, and Dahu Strawberry Farm have been selected. The products are braised chicken with scallions and taro, tri-color sweet-potato balls, pumpkin soup, functional white fungus in osmanthus soup, burdock black fungus soup, red-sweet-potato drink, steamed soybean, black rice, and banana cartilage broth. They will be conveniently available at 260 POYA stores across the country.
True to ingredients by preserving all the flavors and nutrients
The AFA stresses that domestic agricultural ingredients are not only rich in variety and diversity, they also have shorter food-mileage over imports, which gives them better freshness and quality. The concept of disease-prevention food is about bringing together local ingredients with quality domestic processors to develop non-perishable food items that are ready-to-eat or ready-to–cook. The products consist of five categories ranging from staples, non-staples, soups, desserts, to beverages. The central idea is to covey a refreshing image of “nutritional”, “flavorful”, “healthful”, and “innovative” for domestic ingredients among citizens. All are welcome to shop for disease-prevention food at countrywide POYA stores.
