NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Judges' Table
has spoken and one chef won't be packing his knives. Bravo's Top
Chef and Healthy Choice®, a brand of ConAgra Foods, announced today
that Chef Ryan Scott earned the
title of the "Healthy Choice Flavor Ambassador" as a result of
winning the "Top Chef Healthy Showdown" challenge.
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"The competition was incredible, so it's exciting to be named
the 'Healthy Choice Flavor Ambassador,'" said Ryan Scott. "I'm conscious about making smart
choices in the kitchen while deriving inspiration from individual
ingredients, so this ambassadorship is a perfect fit. When you
combine variety and quality, it's easy to create healthy and
delicious meals and that's what Healthy Choice is all about."
As the "Healthy Choice Flavor Ambassador," Ryan Scott will promote an exclusive line of
Healthy Choice Top Chef Inspired Cafe Steamers and work with
Healthy Choice to create new entrees aimed at surprising and
delighting consumers.
Ryan's talent for creating simple, healthy and delicious cuisine
made him an ideal contestant for the five-episode web series that
aired on BravoTV.com. The competition-based series challenged
former Chef'testants to bring their healthy A-game to the kitchen.
Chef'testants included Ryan Scott,
Season Four; Sara Nguyen, Season
Three; Tre Wilcox, Seasons Three and
Eight; and Casey Thompson, Seasons
Three and Eight.
"We're really excited to have Ryan represent the Healthy Choice
brand as Flavor Ambassador, and look forward to collaborating with
him," said Carlos Veraza, Vice
President & General Manager, Healthy Choice. "With Ryan's
passion for wholesome, simple and delicious dishes, and his overall
expertise combined with our innovative culinary experts, we can
continue to create and deliver food that exceeds the expectations
of our consumers."
More about the Top Chef & Healthy Choice
Partnership
Bravo's Top Chef and Healthy Choice, a brand of ConAgra Foods,
Inc., teamed up to introduce an exclusive line of great-tasting
dishes that combine Top Chef's culinary expertise with the
innovative steaming technology of the Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers
entrees. Now available at major grocery retailers, the Top Chef
Inspired Cafe Steamers feature bold, modern and exciting
ingredients providing a great, fresh-tasting meal. The partnership
also includes integration in the upcoming season of "Top Chef:
Texas," along with the series
prize partnership, an elimination challenge, and as an episodic
prize partner as well as future product launches inspired by Top
Chef.
Healthy Choice offers a variety of meals to satisfy any taste.
For more information on the various Healthy Choice product lines,
visit www.HealthyChoice.com. For special offers and
up-to-the-minute information, stay in touch with the brand online:
"Like" the brand on Facebook (www.facebook.com/healthychoice) and
follow Healthy Choice on Twitter (www.twitter.com/Healthy_Choice).
Healthy Choice is a brand of ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one
of North America's leading food
companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's households.
Consumers find Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy
Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt's, Marie
Callender's, Orville
Redenbacher's, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip, Slim Jim, Snack
Pack, and many ConAgra Foods brands in grocery, convenience,
mass merchandise and club stores. ConAgra Foods also has a strong
business-to-business presence, supplying frozen potato and sweet
potato products as well as other vegetable, spice and grain
products to a variety of well-known restaurants, foodservice
operators and commercial customers. For more information, please
visit us at www.conagrafoods.com.
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entertainment companies in the development, production, and
marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global
audience. Bravo has been an NBCUniversal cable network since
December 2002 and was the first
television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when
it launched in December 1980. For
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SOURCE ConAgra Foods, Inc.