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Deliveroo, Maki & Ramen and Nesta partnership: working together to support healthier orders

This project started in June 2025 and is ongoing

As part of our commitment to look for innovative solutions to drive healthier eating habits for consumers without compromising on taste or convenience, we are working with Deliveroo and Asian-inspired restaurant chain Maki & Ramen.

Through this partnership, we are exploring ways to support healthier eating choices  through the customer journey of ordering food from a food delivery app.

Impact goal

Our shared objective is to further enable healthier choices among Deliveroo and Maki & Ramen customers.

Through the partnership, Nesta also aims to develop a technical understanding of how the out-of-home food sector operates to promote customers' health.

What are we doing?

We will explore different projects and approaches through the partnership, including Nesta building an understanding of customers' preferences and identifying innovative ways to encourage healthier choices among customers.

Team

Lourdes Valencia Torres

Lourdes Valencia Torres

Lourdes Valencia Torres

Behavioural Scientist

She/Her

Lourdes is a behavioural scientist for Nesta's healthy life mission.

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David Dearlove

David Dearlove

David Dearlove

Principal Researcher, healthy life mission

David joins Nesta as a principal researcher in the healthy life team.

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Terpsi Panayotidis

Terpsi Panayotidis

Terpsi Panayotidis

Analyst, healthy life mission

Terpsi has joined Nesta as an analyst in the healthy life mission.

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Frances Bain

Frances Bain

Frances Bain

Mission Manager (Scotland), healthy life mission

Frances is Nesta’s mission manager for Scotland working on the healthy life mission and based with the Scotland team in Edinburgh.

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Ryu Matsuura

Ryu Matsuura

Ryu Matsuura

Researcher, healthy life mission

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Ryu is a researcher for Nesta's healthy life mission.

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Deliveroo
Maki & Ramen

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