ABN signs a Training Agreement with Universidad Complutense de Madrid

On March 28, 2011, Aplicaciones Biológicas a la Nutrición and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid signed an agreement to promote cooperation and collaboration in developing an internship program for undergraduates that would achieve a more customized and completesynthesis of education for the better performance of their work.

The Convention was signed in Madrid by Rafael Hernandez Tristan, Vicerrector for Institutional Relations and Cooperation on behalf of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and by Cesar Pérez Abejón Director and representative of Aplicaciones Biológicas a la Nutrición.

ABN seeks to guide, assist and help young people at a time as important as the transition from academia to work. ABN is aware of the enormous importance that has the power to combine activities related to the student's future career with the university last stage. The experience gained during the internship in our company, is in our view, a factor to enhance the profile and a plus for easy access to the business world.

ABN Tips. How to make your homemade Bread

We begin a new section in blog of ABN to share with all you recipes, advice and opinions related to the bakery world that we expect that you find useful. Also, we invite you to send us your opinions and suggestions so that we can also experience your sensations and experiences in the world of the Bakery.

In this first post, Milca and Lucas, our laboratory technicians have written a brief guide to elaborating an artisan bread  all their aroma and flavor... like  the old fashioned bread. We hope you enjoy it.

What do we need?

• 500g de harina panificable     
• 300 ml de agua  
• 10 gr de sal
• 10 gr de levadura fresca   

Process of elaboration

• Put the flour in a bowl and make a hole in the center, in volcano form.
• Mixed the flour and the salt
• Using a jar, dissolve the yeast in the water, for best results use lukewarm water (24 – 30ºC)
• Knead the mixed water (with the dissolved leavening) with the flour.  Continue until the dough has a consistency of molding wax.
• Make a ball with the mass, sprinkle it with flour and leave it in a warm place in the house covered with a damp cloth.
• Wait until it double its size, about 1 hour (this time will depend on the room temperature).
• Divide the ball in two equal parts, give them the form of the bread, and let them rest for 30 minutes more, on an oven tray with furnace paper.
• Preheat the oven to 230ºC.
• Before introducing the bread in the oven, pulverize with water several times, to generate steam within the oven.
• Bake for 35 minutes at 210º centigrade. This time is approximate, since it  depends on the oven. The best thing is to bring it out of the oven when it is brown or toasted.

We already have our bread just done and what is better, natural 100%

FENS 2011. ABN in the European Congress of Nutrition

From the 26th to the 29th of October, ABN has been present in the European Congress of Nutrition, FENS 2011 that has taken place in Madrid. Many of the great brands of nutrition products such as Danone, CocaCola, Nestle, Puleva, Mc Donald´s been have represented in this event of great repercussion in the nutritional world.

ABN has wanted to share with the other exhibitors as well as with the assistants a few of the great challenges that are part of our mission: To promote a healthy lifestyle. That is why we have been centered in two fundamental aspects of the ABN strategy: the food enrichment with natural fibers and the implementation of directed actions to promote the Nutritional Education.

In R&D center of ABN we have been able to develop a product based on a unique natural fiber in the Spanish market that allows to make breads of all the varieties like the white sliced bread, white bread loafs, white bread for hot dogs or white hamburger bread. Adding this fiber in sliced breads as recommended by our R&D Center, a fiber enrichment of 12% is achieved without affecting the organoleptic characteristics of the finished product.

This type of breads has a great potential in markets like the Spain where the fiber consumptions are much lower than the recommended levels specially in the case of the minors who need rich and balanced diets to have a healthy growth as we all know.

On the other hand and as part of ABN’s strategy to contribute to the implantation of a healthy lifestyle, we have filled up ourselves with  illusion and  have undertaken a great project with to the University Alfonso X el Sabio, the City of Alcorcón and LazyTown, the entertainment trademark oriented to  infantile nutrition. This great project is based on the training and nutritional education to children, parents and groups implied in the infantile nutrition like the catering companies of the municipality of Alcorcón. We have called it the ENEA Project.

The success of both proposals, the enriched fiber bread and the ENEA Project, have been higher than the expectations that some time ago were deposited in FENS 2011, from this post we thank all the assistants as well as all those of you who are  giving us your support.

ABN leads the ENEA Project for Nutritional Education in Alcorcón schools

The last 7th of September, ABN - Aplicaciones Biologicas a la Nutricion, Alfonso X el Sabio Foundation, the company Lixesa Productions (LazyTown) and the City of Alcorcón signed an agreement of collaboration with the Foundation University Alfonso X. The objective in this Agreement is to develop a project of nutritional education in the education centers of the municipality of Alcorcón.

The Project that has denominated ENEA, is targeted to three groups, the children, the parents and the catering companies. The fundamental values of the ENEA Project are:

• To develop healthy habits in the children.
• To foment sports.
• To reinforce the familiar bonds.

Conscious of the growing concerns about the inadequate diet of children and adolescents, ABN is promoting, the constitution of a Foundation whose main objective will consist of promote and improve the infantile nutritional quality through the promotion of educative, informative and investigation initiatives that help to educate and inform children, parents, teachers, as well as other groups with influence in the infantile development.

The ENEA Project is the first of this type of activities and ABN will be in charge to manage and direct it, to assure that all the activities that are carried out within the framework of the ENEA Project fulfill the objectives and purposes pursued.

ABN will work with the UAX in coordinated manner to elaborate the educative contents directed to children and parents. In subsequent phases, the students of the last course of the studies of Nutrition of the UAX are the ones that will directly distribute this formation to the children of the schools of Alcorcón, the object of the ENEA Project.

All the formative contents directed to the children will have the audio-visual support of LazyTown, the only mark of entertainment directed in exclusive to the Infantile Health. In this way, it is pursued to form and to amuse the children with its preferred characters of this popular series, Sportacus and Stephanie.

During the next months we will hold meetings with companies of the Sector of the Nutrition whose values and objectives agree with those of the ENEA Project so that if they wish it, they can conduct actions within the frame of the project that benefit  the children from the municipality from Alcorcón.

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