IEEE R10 HTC 2025 Luncheon Session

Overview

A nutritionally balanced diet is fundamental to supporting well-being and vitality across all ages. Furthermore, nutritionally balanced meals during disasters are a critical and often overlooked aspect of emergency preparedness. Natural disasters—such as earthquakes, wildfires, and floods—affect communities around the world every year, often striking without warning. In the face of such uncertainty, many people struggle to prepare effectively.

In this session, we will welcome the Japan Optimized Nutri-Dense Meals Association, a general incorporated association established in July 2023 to promote Optimized Nutri-Dense Meals — a balanced diet with appropriately adjusted macronutrients — and to contribute to public well-being.

Participants will have a hands-on opportunity to sample Optimized Nutri-Dense Meals* that can also be used as emergency food, gaining insight into the innovations that make it possible to combine long shelf life with nutritional value and palatability.

Through shared meals and discussions, participants from diverse regions will exchange country-specific experiences and approaches, highlighting how technology and nutrition science can be adapted to meet local needs. By linking practical tasting experience with real-world case studies, this session aims to foster a cross-cultural understanding of disaster readiness that extends beyond theoretical knowledge and strengthens our collective resilience against the unexpected.

*Halal meals will also be available; please note that these are not part of the Optimized Nutri-Dense Meals.

Lecture Abstract

The Japan Optimized Nutri-Dense Meals Association, a general incorporated association, was established in July 2023 to promote Optimized Nutri-Dense Meals—a balanced diet with appropriately adjusted macronutrients—and to contribute to public well-being. The Association’s primary activities include the standardization andevaluation of Optimized Nutri-Dense Meals, registration of nutritional design standards, product certification, and dissemination of related knowledge. Through these initiatives, it seeks to contribute to pressing social challenges in today’s food environment, such as obesity among middle-aged and older adults, malnutrition among young women, and frailty in the elderly.

While maintaining a nutritionally balanced diet is challenging in daily life, nutritional imbalances become even more critical during evacuation in the event of a disaster. Accordingly, the Association provided certified nutritional support products during the Noto Peninsula earthquake in January 2024.

This presentation introduces the concept of Optimized Nutri-Dense Meals and the Association’s key initiatives, with particular focus on the results of a questionnaire survey on food during evacuation, conducted in collaboration with Anamizu Town in Ishikawa Prefecture, which was affected by the Noto Peninsula earthquake.

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