An Evening with Healthiness of Palm Oil.
A knowledge sharing Food-Hunt was organised on Sunday 2nd January 2018 for Food bloggers, Tasters, Food photographers of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The event was organised by Malaysian Palm Oil Council. The aim of event was to spread awareness about various applications of palm oil.
The event was chaired by Mrs Manjusha A Chaturvedi wife of Mr Atul Chaturvedi a well-known Businessman of Ahmedabad into field of Food and Agro Business working as CEO In Adani Groups Agro Business. Mrs Manjusha Chaturvedi was welcomed by Dr Bhavna Shah, Country Representative, India/Sri Lanka for MPOC.
The event started with presentation on Palm Oil by Dr Bhavna Shah. In her presentation she spoke about history of palm oil, Palm oil production and Yield, worldwide market of Palm Oil and share of Malaysian palm Oil Council, she also convinced all the audience that how the palm oil is good for health, she cleared the myths about palm oil.
By giving some examples of day to day used products she was able convince all bloggers to say YES for use of Palm Oil. She spoke about products as listed below:
· Snacks of Indian Brands
· Margarine
· Medicines
· Cosmetics
· Soap
· Biscuits
· Chocolate, Etc..
The best of 50 bloggers from – Food, Fashion, Lifestyle and Hospitality graced the event. This event was a great opportunity for bloggers to gain some valuable insights into the Palm Oil, listen to some honest reviews, and get low-down on current trends, myths as well as knowledge about personal health.
To add the icing on the cake, the tour to different restaurants in city by means of Food Hunt and the challenges given to us at participating restaurants; viz. KBOB’s, Barbeque nations, Happy Singh and sugar N Spice.
The Hunt started at KBOB’s and took roughly 3 hours to complete, solving clues and questioner, Salad making, Blind Fold Food Tasting and Ice Cream Eating were the tasks to be performed by Bloggers.
Running on the roads to reach next destination through Ahmedabad; viewing the sites of the city and trying to find the "Treasure" (The Restaurants) was an amazing experience for every participant.
At each restaurant bloggers were asked to show their Clue card to the staff to get Next task followed by next clue card.
How can i forget to share the result of Hunt, We the Group-4 won this Hunt, all the tasks were judged by Mrs Manjusha Chaturvedi. Group – 4 was consist of all Unknown participants from Ahmedabad viz. AnushaIyer, KhayalDave, NidhiVyas, NisargKothari, PraneetMohnot, RaveenaRewani and myself.
According to me; “These kind of events are required to enhance the relationship between the Producers / suppliers and the bloggers of the respective place. Nowadays word of mouth is best source to generate sales and revenue for your business and such events are one step closer to that.” I strongly believe that MPOC will be beneficial from Ahmadabad’s Food bloggers Meet.
-Tushar Meshram
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