The新奥尔良-based snack company黄铜根正在制作健康的零食，同时支持当地的社区组织和国际农民。
Using the蛋白质和纤维富含纤维的Sacha Inchiseeds sourced from partner farms in Southeast Asia, the company strives to make nutritious alternatives to common snack foods. It then puts the proceeds from the healthy snacks toward educational initiatives for New Orleans youth.
Louisiana ranks该国最低in terms of childhood health and equity, according to a 2020 report by Save the Children. “I felt compelled to use our company to help change that,” Aaron Gailmor, founder of Brass Roots, tells Food Tank.
黄铜根与非营利组织合作YouthRunNola,Covenant House of New Orleans， 和Roots of Musicto bring customized health education to New Orleans youth. Programs include pickling workshops, cooking lessons, and seminars about the links between health and mood. “Nutrition and wellness programming is an integral component of any organization’s offering to kids,” Gailmor tells Food Tank.
Brass Roots’s impact is also extending beyond the local community. The company sources its primary ingredient, Sacha Inchi seeds, from its farming partner, Chan, who grows the seeds inThailand and Laos.
Gailmor describes the peanut-like seeds as the “ultimate impact ingredient,” because of their high nutritional and economic potential. The collaboration not only provides small farmers with a source of income but also helped Chan establish a K-12 school and a university in his community.
Gailmor hopes that Brass Roots’s work will empower young people to make healthy long-term choices that they believe in. “Ultimately I founded Brass Roots to make an impact,” Gailmor tells Food tank, “through [our] products, through [our] supply chain, [and] through our activism.”
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