The Royal Highland Show is an annual event that highlights excellence in agriculture, food, and rural living at Ingliston in Edinburgh. Over the course of the show, a special emphasise is giving to providing direct information to future generations about food and how it is produced. The show is very popular for schools who often arrange field trips for their pupils.
Located in the ground’s Discovery Centre, Seafood Scotland held a stand with activities to demonstrate to pupils how Scottish seafood is produced and how beneficial it can be as part of a healthy diet. Over the course of the show, we also provided tasting sessions for visiting schools. With the abundance of species available for consumption in Scotland, we were keen to highlight to the pupils how different types of seafood can taste and different methods how it can be cooked at home. With seven items of seafood on offer, it was an amazing opportunity to give the pupils, and parents alike in some cases, the experience of trying new seafood that many had not had before.
The show proved to be a fantastic success and we’d like extend our thanks to Bakkafrost Scotland, Downies of Whitehills, International Fish Canners, J K Thomson, Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group and Thistle Seafoods Ltd for providing the excellent product’s which we were able to show to our young audiences.