FINEST Food Programme
The FINEST Food programme aims to build capability among food manufacturing industry with knowledge and skills to develop healthier, functional food products, to address nutritional and health needs of the Singapore population, like an aging population, obesity and chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and heart health.
It is a tri-partite initiative helmed by HPB’s Centre of Excellence (Nutrition), in collaboration with enterprise development agency, SPRING Singapore, and Singapore Food Manufacturers’ Association (SFMA), to drive the co-innovation of healthier functional food solutions with the food industry in Singapore. Harnessing on the food science and engineering expertise of the Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) like, the Food Innovation and Resource Centre (FIRC@SP), Temasek Polytechnic and Republic Polytechnic, the programme, as its name suggest catalyses the development of Functional, Innovative, Nutritious, Effective, Science-based and Tasty Food.