Kio University's food education volunteer circle "Kio nutrition egg team" devised a jam using non-standard apples from the local area of Nara prefecture.As a welcome campus project at the school festival "Kiosai", a parent-child online cooking class using this apple jam will be held on October 10, and sales will start from early November.
The "Kio nutrition egg team" belongs to the "Health Team Nara", a food education volunteer circle consisting of students studying in the management nutritionist training course at Kio University, Kinki University, Tezukayama University, and Nara Women's University.For health issues in Nara Prefecture, we actively disseminate information, make policy proposals, and develop products, such as receiving the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award at the 4th Food Education Activity Awards in recognition of food education activities for younger generations. Is going.
For the apple jam developed this time, we asked Takaya Tanaka pastry chef of the social welfare corporation Seseragikai to cooperate in devising a recipe, and among the Shinano sweets and Jonathan cultivated at Kubotaringo Orchard in Yadawara-cho, Nara Prefecture, we used non-standard apples. use.Incorporating the SDGs' perspectives of reducing food loss and local production for local consumption into the taste of the season, we have embodied an initiative unique to the "Kio nutrition egg team."
At the 19th Kiou Festival, as a welcome campus online project, "Let's make with students! Parent-child online cooking class using seasonal fruits" will be held for parents and children in the upper grades of elementary school.Parents and children will make sweets using this original apple jam, which will not only "strengthen children's cooking ability" but also provide an opportunity to think about problems such as local production for local consumption and food loss.
Also, from the beginning of November, jam sales will start at "Ohisama lunch" in Yamatotakada City, Nara Prefecture.
