La Farine - part of the "Eat Healthy Live Healthy" initiative by Dubai Mnicipality

La Farine is a French restaurant in J.W. Marriott Marquis with a nice decor. It has a seating area which gets ample of natural sunlight, as well as one that is a bit dark and cosy with really nice seating. 



Now coming to the main highlight of this post. The Food Safety Department of Dubai Municipality has come up with a very nice initiative of "Eat Healthy. Live Healthy", where they certify dishes which meet certain Nutrition standards. They invited me to this restaurant that has 6 of these certified dishes. I will talk about the nutrition standards later in this post.

The really good thing and an eye-opener for most people is that healthy food is so much more than salads. Also, for someone like me who wasn't much of a healthy eater, seeing so many options including meat is such a delight. 

Grilled Lamb Chops: The lamb is sourced from Australia, and it is marinated in herbs such as parsley. It is topped with smoked Viking Salt and served along with bread crusted cherry tomato. I'm sure your mouth is watering already.
Nutrition Info:-
Calories: 449 
Saturated Fats: 5g
Trans Fat: 0.7g
Sodium: 600mg
Added Sugar: Nil

Vegetable Tian (vegetarian friendly): A melange of carefully selected grilled vegetables over a fennel & onion jam (which I would have never guess had they not told us). It is topped with some pine nuts and fresh goat cheese. 
Nutrition Info:-
Calories: 444
Saturated Fats: 5g
Trans Fat: 0.0g
Sodium: 600mg
Added Sugar: Nil

Healthy Avocado Toast (can be made vegetarian friendly on request): This is made on Asado toast and contains a creamy topping of spiced mashed Avocado. This also contains delicious veal pancetta crisp that is air dried and a poached egg. Certainly worth a try for Avo fans!
Nutrition Info:-
Calories: 430
Saturated Fats:0
Trans Fat: 0.0g
Sodium: 450mg
Added Sugar: Nil

Nutritious Quinoa Salad (Vegetarian friendly): This contains Avocado too, so if you like quinoa and avocado, you must certainly not miss this. The Quinoa in this tasted really fresh and healthy. The salad contains quinoa, fresh goat cheese, avocado, celery stick, pine nuts, green asparagus, cranberry, raisins and a balsamic dressing. 
Nutrition Info:-
Calories: 300
Saturated Fats: 5g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Sodium: 115mg
Added Sugar: Nil

Pan-Seared Sea Bream: We couldn't believe when we got to know that no additional oil was used to sear this. It is the natural oils in the fish that are used to make this one. It was really soft and flavourful. It is served with steamed baby potato, parsley and crunchy leaves. 
Nutrition Info:-
Calories: 505
Saturated Fats: 2.7g
Trans Fat: 0.0g
Sodium: 600mg
Added Sugar: Nil


Smoked Duck Salad: Low fat duck breast is used to make this one. It contains lettuce and various crunchy leaves along with peach and orange. A lovely honey-mustard dressing is used in this one. 
Nutrition Info:-
Calories: 221
Saturated Fats: 3.4g
Trans Fat: 0.0g
Sodium: 372mg
Added Sugar: 3.3g

As I mentioned earlier, here are the prescribed criteria by the Food and Safety Department for the dishes to get the "Eat Healthy Live Healthy" logo. They're divided into  two categories as under: 1) Primary Criteria , 2) Nutrition Criteria :



It was really nice to know that the Dubai Municipality is taking initiative to promote healthy eating for a better lifestyle especially since we have so much of variety in terms of food here, and a considerable amount of the population ends up eating junk food and suffer from some kind of major or minor disorders. 

This initiative certifies particular dishes in a restaurant that meet the criteria and not exactly the whole restaurant. For a restaurant to apply, it need to have at least 2 main dishes that meet the requirements. In the second phase of certification, the Dubai Municipality certified 19 restaurants as under:


Eat Healthy. Live Healthy! Look for this logo next to the dishes:


You can spot me there in the Red shirt:

. أقام قسم التصاريح والتغذية التطبيقية بإدارة سلامة الغذاء فعالية للمؤسسات المشاركة في "برنامج صحتك في غذاءك" والتي استهدفت فئة الإعلاميين من أصحاب المدونات الغذائية وأخصائيي الرعاية الصحية وعامة الناس لنشر الوعي بنوعية الأطعمة المقدمة ضمن هذا البرنامج. Permits and Applied Nutrition section conducted a media-tasting event to increase awareness about the “Eat Healthy, Live Healthy” program through inviting food bloggers, healthcare specialists, and the public. #دبي #بلدية_دبي #إدارة_سلامة_الغذاء #DubaiMunicipality #Dubai #mydubai

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