Get it on with The Food Doctor
February 6th 2002

Get in the mood for love with a little help from The Food Doctor™. The Food Doctor™ has produced a range of fruit and seed snack  bars including Get It On -- packed with rye, pumpkin and hemp seeds with banana, figs, mango and gingko biloba -- which may boost your sexual appetite. Get It On is one of four different nutritious snack bars the others being Cleanse, Get Set and Unwind. The Food Doctor™ bars are all approved by The Vegetarian Society and are available in independent health food stores nationwide visit www.thefooddoctor.com  for more information.

The Food Doctor™ bars build on the success of the Original Five Seed Mix which is great as a snack , can be added to soups, salads and stir fries. The Food Doctor™ positive food range offers a tasty, highly nutritious snack and believes that nutrition is the cornerstone to good health and vitality.

The Vegetarian Society's 'approved trademark ' was established in 1969 Since then it has become the most widely recognised and trusted stamp of vegetarian approval anywhere in the world. The symbol can be found on a huge range of products, including retail food and drinks, catering supplies, household goods, cosmetics and toiletries.

The strength of the symbol is based on products meeting four firm criteria: Products have to be free of animal flesh, meat or bone stock, animal carcass fats, gelatine, aspic or any other products resulting from slaughter. Approval will only be granted to products or ingredients not tested on animals since 1986, any eggs used in products must be free-range. In 1998 the criteria was modified to exclude genetically modified organisms as these will generally have been tested on animals.

The Society also requires that cross contamination does not occur between vegetarian and non-vegetarian products during food production. No other symbol gives consumers such reassurance and inspires the trust that comes from the Vegetarian Society approved symbol.

The Vegetarian Society, is the oldest vegetarian organisation in the world.  It offers an independent voice able to promote and provide information on vegetarianism.

National Vegetarian Week 2002 will run from the 8th ~ 14th July. As part of the week's activities, The Vegetarian Society will be hosting the 35th World Vegetarian Congress, Food for all our Futures, in Edinburgh. 

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Notes to editors

~ The Vegetarian Society ( Registered Charity No. 259358). For more information please contact  -- please contact Su Taylor, Press Officer, on 0161 925 2012  or Samantha Calvert, Head of Marketing and Public Relations, on 0161 925 2013


~ Out of office hours The Vegetarian Society Press Office can be contacted on 07973 108165 (Su) or  07973 108167 (Sam), or visit www.vegsoc.org

~ For more information or photography on The Food Doctor™ range please contact Riverhouse PR on 020 7978 5615 or visit www.thefooddoctor.com


~  If you would like to receive press releases via e-mail from The Vegetarian Society please contact su@vegsoc.org

~ Around 2000 people a week are joining the veggie revolution. Currently around 5% of the adult population are vegetarian - that's double the number from ten years ago!

~ National Vegetarian Week 2002 -- A Whole World of Taste -- will run from the 8th ~ 14th July. It's the ideal time to focus on all things veggie and National Vegetarian Week 2002 will be dipping into world cuisine to tempt everyone's taste buds with international flavours -- showing the adaptability, depth and range of veggie food

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