Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Zespri launching a campaign to encourage people to eat better

Published Jun 18, 2024, 8:32 AM

Leading kiwifruit producer Zespri has launched a global campaign encouraging people to eat better in order to tackle health challenges around the world.

The campaign has a focus of improving global health outcomes by encouraging people to swap out one unhealthy food for a serving of fresh fruit or vegetables everyday.

The Country's Jamie Mackay is hopeful this scheme will work.

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Jamie McKay Hosts of the Countries with US. Jamie, Hello, good a, Heather, Hey, I like the sound of the Zespri campaign. You reckon it's going to work.

Well, I think so. I mean it's it's uh wonder food really zespree this time of the year. I absolutely love it. Heather on the consistently every morning for breakfast to Kiwi fruit goals.

Yeah, but are you Are you getting kywy fruit? That's ripe because where I am in Central Auckland as hard as a rock man.

And that's just the way I like it, Heather. I like green apples and i like green gold Kiwi fruit, so I'm as happy as Larry. You don't want to soft and mushy.

Really no, no, I don't want it to be softer mushy. I'm with you. That's nasty. But like it is like.

A rock well, yes and no, it's as long as you can get your spoon in there, Heather, see spoon having cut it in half. I think it's it's fair game to be fair.

I'm going to get a few biceps for that. So basically what the campaign is is they're trying to get people around the world to swap out one unhealthy food and swap in a healthy food and its replacement, hopefully a kiwi fruit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, And it was this campaign was launched in Japan when he finally got there by our Prime Minister Christopher Luxeon along with Cespry. The interesting fact out of this story, Heather that I found it interesting anyhow, As I said, they launched it in Japan, which has some of the lowest consumption of fresh fruit globally. And I thought Japan, and I've been there once and loved their food. It seemed very very healthy to me, and I didn't note a lack of fresh fruit and veggies, So there you go. I mean, the sky's the limits for keywi fruit and our apples and our horticultural products in Japan. And I think Todd McClay, who I chatted to today on the country, and Prime Minister Luxe and are doing a good job, you know, rustling up some business for end Za and go over there.

Yeah, good stuff. Now what are we expecting from the GDT auction?

Wow, mine's greater than mine. Namely Mike mcintiere, the guy I used a chart and he says, look the futures markets, this is the second GDT auction of the new season. By the way, the futures market is pointing for a little a little more than a one percent fall in the powders, closer to five percent in the fats, But I mean calling for that all year, it hasn't. In fact, one of those fat categories AMS has been up twenty auctions in a row. So Mike reckon, sooner or later, they're going to be right and it will come off its lofty highs. It's interesting that we're heading into the last low auction volumes before moving into the peak, and this is the Northern Hemisphere peak, but offshore inventory outside of China, where they seem to be making plenty of it at the moment, remains fairly tight. So Mike's hoping that maybe that's futures markets are wrong, as they have been in recent weeks, and we get yet another positive globaldiry trade auction tonight.

Yeah, how good would that be? Jamie? Thank you so much, enjoy you keep for it. Tomorrow's Jamie mccaigh, host of the Country.

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