Autogrill, with the Umberto Veronesi Foundation to promote healthy eating habits

A varied and healthy diet is the basis of a correct lifestyle. Autogrill, a leader in the catering sector for travelers, and the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, which funds scientific research and promotes health education projects, come together to create an initiative – in the Ciao and La Fucina concepts in Autogrill stores throughout Italy – which will feature some of the most original and colorful dishes of the moment: pokè salads. For each poké sold up to mid-July, Autogrill will donate 1 euro to the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, which will allocate the proceeds to the financing of a scholarship and research grant for Benedetta Raspini, a nutrition biologist specialized in Food Sciences, who carries out her activity of research at the Clinical and Dietetic Nutrition Laboratory of the University of Pavia.The choice of dishes to be linked to the initiative is certainly not random: the pokè are Hawaiian-inspired recipes that combine healthy and tasty ingredients in a single dish such as vegetables, fruit, chicken, fresh raw or cooked fish and rice cooked in an extremely simple way for a balanced dish that includes vitamins, proteins and carbohydrates. They undoubtedly represent a practical and fast alternative for all those who, even while traveling, do not intend to give up on a balanced diet, especially in the summer. Wide and diversified offer among the different pokè: the tasty Neptune pokè, made of rice basmati and venus, canned tuna, eggs, edamame soy, leccine olives, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, potatoes and black sesame, exotic pokè Salmon, enriched with basmati and venus rice, smoked salmon, mango, avocado, red sauerkraut, soy edamame, baby lettuce and cherry tomatoes and black sesame or the delicious pokè Pollo, made with basmati and Venere rice, chicken breast, caesar sauce, bacon, avocado, baby lettuce, cherry tomatoes, green beans and sesame. Among the many pokè proposed by Autogrill, and at the center of the collaboration with the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, stands out the pokè Rainbow created exclusively by the chef of haute cuisine Simone Salvini, for years at the side of the Foundation and famous for his passion for cooking attentive to the nutritional virtues of the individual ingredients and already a partner of Autogrill in initiatives related to the dissemination of a correct diet: a delicious mix of basmati and venus rice, hummus with beetroot, hummus with peas, hummus with turmeric, avocado, soy edamame, red cabbage marinated, lettuce, mango, cherry tomatoes and black sesame. “We are proud to start this collaboration with the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, making a concrete contribution to research in the nutritional field through the funding of a research grant to a deserving researcher – declared Andrea Cipolloni, Autogrill CEO Europe – With our Green Lab, s u new recipes that are ever healthier and more genuine and through collaboration with chef Salvini, we want to best meet the needs of customers who are more attentive to a balanced diet. This initiative that binds us to the Umberto Veronesi Foundation is a further step in this direction. “” A correct lifestyle and healthy diet are the first weapon available to combat most diseases. For this reason, for years we have been funding scientific research in the field of nutrigenomics, that is the science that studies the relationships between genetic heritage and food. We are proud that Autogrill, a far-sighted company, is at our side to support excellent scientific research with the aim of fighting the diseases that still threaten the lives of thousands of people today “, said Monica Ramaioli, General Manager of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation. .