Helping merchant mariners eat healthier

Helping merchant mariners eat healthier    Garrets International Ltd., a London-based marine contract catering company, has taken its healthy eating free range egg policy a stage further by offering a wider range of new free range and healthy foods to crews at more ports in Europe, the United States, Australia and Korea.
   The company has also started supplying ships in the Middle East, Far East, the United States and South Africa with low-fat, low-sugar and low-salt varieties of mayonnaise, ketchup and tinned products including baked beans.
   Another part of Garrets’ initiative is to supply vessels with sunflower oil instead of the more traditional vegetable oil. Sunflower oil has a high smoke point, which makes it ideal for deep frying and is low in saturated fat so is good for stir frying and salad dressings. Being low in saturated fat helps to control cholesterol levels.
   'Our ship supply partners around the world have moved very quickly to support us with our healthy eating initiatives and we are still planning to extend this policy in the near future to include a greater number of products in more areas,' said Derricks Samms, Garrets’ managing director, in a statement.