New model blends grocery retail with telenutrition, offering customers fresh food, dietitian support, and hands-on education in one location.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Foodsmart, the nation's leading telenutrition and foodcare solution, announced a new partnership with Forty Acres Fresh Market, the grocery business founded by Chicago entrepreneur Elizabeth "Liz" Abunaw. Together, the two companies have launched a Nutrition Corner within the newly opened Forty Acres Fresh Market grocery store in Chicago's Austin neighborhood along the Soul City Corridor, providing customers with practical tools and services to support healthier eating.
The Nutrition Corner will feature nutrition education resources, recipe cards, and information on SNAP and other food access programs. A Community Health Outreach Coordinator will staff the Nutrition Corner, answering questions about Foodsmart's foodcare platform and connecting eligible customers directly to registered dietitians for personalized support. Foodsmart and Forty Acres Fresh Market will also collaborate on food demos, cooking classes, and other experiential programming to empower customers with practical skills for healthier living.
"This partnership is about more than groceries, it's about creating a business model where access to healthy food and nutrition education are built in," said Liz Abunaw, Founder of Forty Acres Fresh Market. "This is about building a vibrant food retail experience for our Austin community. Since 2018—through pop‑ups, farmers markets, and delivery—I've worked to close the distance between people and good food. Now, with Foodsmart in store, we're layering in real nutrition support (registered dietitian visits, SNAP enrollment support, and cooking classes) so our customers get more than groceries, they get tools that make healthy choices feel practical and empowering."
Foodsmart, which works with more than 3 million members nationwide, integrates nutrition education, meal planning, and food access into a single foodcare platform. Through the partnership, Forty Acres Fresh Market shoppers will have the opportunity to engage with Foodsmart's full ecosystem—registered dietitian visits and personalized meal planning to SNAP/WIC registration and tools that stretch grocery budgets—directly from the store.
"This partnership shows what's possible when local businesses and national health innovators work together," said Jennifer McGuire, Chief Customer Experience Officer at Foodsmart. "Liz and Forty Acres bring the place, the people, and the trust. We're here to support her vision with resources and clinical expertise. By embedding foodcare and nutrition support directly into the grocery shopping experience, we're creating a model that can be replicated in communities across the country."
The Forty Acres Fresh Market grocery store, now open daily from 8:00AM to 8:00PM at 5713 West Chicago Avenue in Chicago, IL, showcases how neighborhood-based businesses and national platforms can work together to expand food access and improve community health without compromising economic sustainability.
About Forty Acres Fresh Market
Forty Acres Fresh Market is an independent, Black woman-owned grocery business offering high-quality food to people across Chicagoland. Forty Acres working to restore healthy food access so that people across Chicago neighborhoods can have a worthwhile grocery experience regardless of zip code. Founded by Liz Abunaw in 2018 in response to a lack of nourishing food options on Chicago's West Side, Forty Acres offers a flexible, personalized grocery experience with seasonal pop-up markets, year-round produce delivery, and a full-service Austin neighborhood grocery store to bridge barriers to access. Forty Acres Fresh Market is driven by the simple belief that every hood should be healthy. When more access is created, everyone can enjoy those benefits. Learn more at www.fortyacresfreshmarket.com
About Foodsmart
Foodsmart is the most comprehensive and widely adopted foodcare platform in the U.S., supported by a national network of Registered Dietitians. Foodsmart helps patients make healthier food choices and achieve lasting behavior change and health outcomes, by enhancing access to nutritious, affordable food options. Foodsmart's digital platform provides personalized guidance to members, saving them time and money through the integration of FoodSMART telenutrition with personalized care and meal plans, and FoodsMART online food buying and delivery, money savers and food-as-medicine benefits management. Learn more at www.foodsmart.com.
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