For healthcare professionals
Help shape plant-rich healthcare meals.
Dietitians, chefs, menu planners and foodservice teams in the Netherlands and Denmark can register interest now. Evaluation is planned for Q1 2028.
Before you get in touch
Who can register interest?
The evaluation is intended for hospitals and elderly care institutions in the Netherlands and Denmark. Dietitians, chefs, menu planners and catering teams working with these institutions can contact the project on behalf of their organisation. The focus is on assessing and improving the protein quality of plant-rich healthcare menus.
The team will discuss whether your setting fits the study and agree practical participation arrangements. The project plan identifies these target settings but does not set out a complete set of formal inclusion and exclusion criteria.
What would our institution contribute?
The planned evaluation involves working with your existing menus and testing recommendations in practice. Depending on the agreed study activities, your team would:
- Provide meal or recipe information so the researchers can assess current menu protein quality and suggest improvements.
- Try the recommender with chefs and dietitians, review suggested ingredient changes and explore their use in your kitchen and menus.
- Give feedback on usability, feasibility and confidence in plant-rich meal planning, for example through questionnaires, interviews or focus groups.
- Where agreed, help the research team gather patient or resident perspectives on proposed meal changes and their acceptance.
Participating institutions are intended to receive access to the recommender and tailored menu recommendations. Access and study arrangements will be agreed before participation; the plan includes project-specific licence agreements.
When will activities take place, and how much time is needed?
An initial usability pilot with chefs and dietitians is planned for 2027. Recruitment and preparation for the broader institutional evaluation are planned during 2027, with evaluation starting in Q1 2028 and data collection planned to finish in Q3 2028.
Your institution should allow staff time for onboarding, preparing meal information, trying recommendations and giving feedback. This is a project-wide timetable, not a requirement for continuous participation throughout that period. The plan does not specify hours per institution or the number and length of sessions; these will be agreed with the team before you decide to participate.
Registering interest now does not commit you or your organisation to taking part.
What should I include in my email?
Your name, role, organisation, country and a short description of your interest are enough for an initial enquiry. The project team can discuss suitable opportunities and share participation details when available. Please do not send patient records or other sensitive information in this initial email.
How do I reach the Danish team?
Use recipe@wur.nl for enquiries from either country and mention that your organisation is based in Denmark. The shared mailbox is the route to the Danish contact, Prof. Inge Tetens. Ask the team about language requirements for future study activities; these are not yet confirmed.
Can I use the tool or take training already?
The existing Alpha-Tool is available for meal protein-quality assessment. RECIPE's AI recommendation models are being developed and are not yet a validated public tool. A related WUR course is available for registration; the planned RECIPE module and workshops are separate future outputs. See the outputs and training section.
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