University:  Agricultural University of Athens

Category: Dessert, Ready-cooked meal, Soup

Short description: Ready-To-Cook meal-pot based on traditional recipes, instantly reconstituted by adding hot water.

“GReatings” is a Ready-To-Cook meal-pot, consisted of dried distinct ingredients, which after rehydration, may instantly create healthy, traditional meals. The innovative part of “GReatings” is that all the meal-pots follow the same philosophy: GReatings’ tree philosophy. GReatings’ tree is being fed through the roots of Greek tradition, supported with the trunk of our ideas-creativeness-believes, blossomed in “GReatings” meal-pots and irrigated by consumers’ needs. Specifically, each brunch of the tree, represents a product category, which may produce different products namely “Trahanas with tomato sauce” for pasta category, “Lupins and Lentils” for legumes category, and “Semolina halva with currants” for fruits and cereals category. “GReatings” has great nutritional value, offering high amounts of energy, while it is full of fibres, proteins, unsaturated fats and no added sugars. The holistic environmental approach of “GReatings” is revealed through the whole production chain starting from its ingredients (use of by-products, sustainable corps) and ending to its packaging (bio-laminated sugarcane). “GReatings” can be produced in a simple manufacturing line with minimal energy consumption and the use of sun-dried raw materials. “GReatings” is an ambient stable product, with an estimated shelf life of 1 year and it can be an ideal alternative meal for multi-tasking consumers.