Taste is powerful!
Taste isn't just about pleasure - it's a powerful biological tool designed to guide us toward what our bodies need. While modern wellness culture often frames taste as an obstacle to healthy eating, flavor is actually essential for balancing detoxification, supporting immunity, and regulating hunger. Our bodies are wired to respond to taste because in nature, it connects us directly to the life and nutrients within food.
It's time to support your clients in a new way - to empower them to honor their bodies and all that taste is doing for them. By embracing flavor complexity and nutrient density your clients will build their capacity to shift their preferences towards healthy eating instead of away from it, making you the nutritional hero!
Spend an hour strategizing with Sherry in order to elevate your practice through taste. You'll walk away from this session with quick tips as well as options to continue to expand the power of taste within your practice.
Includes:
In-depth conversation designed address the flavor related challenges you see with your clients.
Quick tips to help create more flavor diverse menu plans
Personalized next steps options
Resources to support eco-focused nutrient dense food producers
Benefits:
Understand how flavor can be supportive, challenging, or a useful tool in your practice
Recognize taste as a strategy to empower clients.
Embrace taste as a complex biological experience.
Training for holistic health practitioners to incorporate taste and flavor education into their client work.
Includes:
Understanding the biological functions of taste and its connection to metabolism, digestion, and detoxification.
Strategies for establishing a "flavor value system" with clients.
Methods for guiding clients to recognize the differences between flavors in nature, functional foods, and ultra-processed foods.
Techniques for helping clients embrace flavor complexity and overcome aversions.
Baseline understanding of how flavors change with nutrient variations
Resources to support eco-focused, nutrient dense food producers
Benefits:
Enhanced client compliance and success rates.
Unique approach to nutritional counseling that sets you apart.
Tools to empower clients to trust their innate sense of taste by overlaying it with your expertise
For any individual who wants to incorporate taste as a nutritional guide - we offer this 3 hour personalized session to explore your taste preferences, aversions, and how they relate to your nutritional needs.
Includes:
In-depth discussion of your current diet and taste experiences.
Education on the 5 basic tastes and their connection to nutrients.
Guidance on identifying and addressing flavor imbalances.
Customized plan to incorporate more nutrient-dense foods based on your taste preferences. Can be designed to work in conjunction with a professional protocol.
Practical tips for label reading and navigating food choices.
Resources to connect you to eco-focused food producers
Benefits:
Increased awareness of your taste perceptions.
Improved understanding of the relationship between flavor and nutrition.
Overcome flavor aversion and embrace healthy foods.
Learn to trust your innate abilities
Recognize the benefits of flavor diversity and nutrient density
Description: Interactive workshops to explore the world of taste and nutrition in a group setting, Option to personalize a private program customized to your client base, or to participate in a community setting. Workshops can be done online or in person.
Includes:
Guided tasting experiences of the 5 basic tastes.
Discussions on flavor profiles in various foods.
Hands-on activities to create palatable and nutrient-dense dishes and menu plans
Sharing of tips and strategies for incorporating flavor diversity into your daily food choices
Benefits:
Fun and engaging way to learn about taste and nutrition.
Opportunity to connect with others and share experiences.
Practical skills and tips to enhance your culinary repertoire.
Description: Customized challenges to gradually introduce new flavors and expand your palate.
Includes:
Initial assessment of your current flavor preferences and aversions.
Gradual introduction of new foods, herbs, and spices.
Guidance on combining flavors to enhance palatability.
Ongoing support and feedback.
Benefits:
Expanded palate and appreciation for diverse flavors.
Increased intake of nutrient-dense foods.
Overcoming fear of trying new things.
Combine nutritional knowledge with innate experiences.
Description: Educational programs for farmers and agricultural professionals on the connection between soil health, nutrient density, and flavor.
Includes:
Presentations on the impact of agricultural practices on food quality and flavor.
Workshops on techniques to enhance nutrient density and flavor in crops.
Resources for connecting consumers with regeneratively grown foods.
Marketing strategies to elevate the flavor in nutrient dense food production.
Benefits:
Increased awareness of the importance of soil health and nutrient density.
Strategies to highlight the flavor and nutritional value of produce.
Strengthened connection between farmers, consumers and health practitioners
HAVE SHERRY SPEAK AT YOUR EVENT
From the TedX stage to your online community webinars, Sherry has done it all, bringing enthusiasm and passion through her empowering message of taste. Her audiences have laughed, cried, but most of all walked away feeling empowered by the possibility that they have an innate wisdom that can not only guide their own healthy journeys, but can support a more vibrant and vital food system.
"Flavor is the remedy for boring food. Flavor is a remedy for your health. Flavor is a remedy for the planet." - Sherry Hess TedX Breckenridge 2021