Lexington partners with Natasha Foundation
Lexington Catering has launched a new allergy aware menu across of its sites.
In a first for the industry, Lexington Catering has launched a new allergy aware menu across of its sites offering more accessible mealtime options. It has been designed in partnership with the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation (NARF) in response to growing demand from customers.
The menu is part of Lexington's Mindful Kitchen brand, an initiative designed to promote sustainability, health and wellbeing through its clean and forward-thinking dishes. Food options for clients include plant-based meals, nutritious smoothies and food derived from sustainable farming practices.
The menu itself has been carefully designed with accessibility in mind, offering healthy, balanced meals while omitting each of the 14 regulated allergens. Despite this, people will be able to choose from a wide variety of dishes, from hearty stews to crowd favourites such as lasagne.
'We’re very proud'
Lexington development chef Dang Pham said: “With our allergy aware menu, we’ve been able to make meals more accessible for those with concerns about allergens while still maintaining our high quality and we’re very proud to finally unveil it.”
Nadim and Tanya Ednan-Laperouse, founders of the NARF, added: “Food allergy is not a choice or a preference, it is a serious and unpredictable disease that can cause a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. Some 2.4m adults now have a diagnosed food allergy in the UK and children generally have twice the rate of food allergies.
“There has never been a more important time to understand what is fuelling the global allergy epidemic and support the food-allergic community. We are so grateful that our partners Elior and Lexington are leading the way in helping people with food allergies.”
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