Comment & opinion
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: HFSS shake-up, BrewDog rumours, retailer pay and caffeine pouches
The nutrient profiling model starting gun has now been fired, with plans to introduce the new definition to determine what constitutes a HFSS product in this parliament
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Comment & OpinionNew UK food health scores penalise consumers and undermine industry
The government’s updated nutrient profiling model will render all the previous reformulation effort worthless, says Craig Ralph, client services director at WeAreSPQR
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Comment & OpinionNew nutrient profiling model is at odds with scientific sentiment
Slavishly focusing on further reductions in fat, salt and sugar is at odds with the latest scientific consensus, consumer sentiment and retailer actions
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Comment & OpinionClipper Tea bee shows power of evolution
A new character provides proof that extra mileage can be wrung out from a simple, effective concept
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Comment & OpinionHow To Drink For Free In London: YouTuber gets to the point for a pint
A beer in London now costs an average £6.75. YouTuber Thomas Pearson looks for loopholes
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Comment & OpinionSeven key lessons from seven years as a startup founder
Seven years since starting Caleño, these are the lessons that have really stayed with Ellie Webb
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Comment & OpinionThe food supply chain is miraculous. We should shout about it
If a shopper knows raspberries were harvested by hand in Scotland four days ago and boxed fresh in Guildford today, it gives context for the price they pay, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Comment & OpinionThe new nutrient profiling model could rewrite UK food rules
A technical change in the NPM could substantially reduce unhealthy food marketing to children, says Dr Alison Tedstone, former chief nutritionist at Public Health England and the DHSC, and expert advisor to the Obesity Health Alliance
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Comment & OpinionGLP-1s will reshape food systems - but it’s all guesswork
No one wants to talk about the huge limitations in our knowledge of how GLP-1 agonists are likely to impact food choice, says Anthony Warner, development chef at New Food Innovation
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Comment & OpinionFmcg needs to catch up as consumers go gaga for gut health
The UK digestive health supplements market generated a revenue of $466.4m in 2024 and is expected to reach $846.3m by 2033
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Comment & OpinionVeganuary veil misses the bigger health opportunity
If the goal is to build lasting, healthy habits across the nation, we may need to move beyond binary choices and restrictive labels, says Harvey Choat, MD at Nexus PR
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Comment & OpinionWhy Absolut Tabasco could be this year’s hottest brand collab
The NPD is one of Absolut brand owner Pernod Ricard’s big bets for 2026 and is launching across 50-plus global markets from next month
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Comment & OpinionWill Streeting’s war on sugar transform unhealthy food?
The DHSC’s plans to push ahead with a new, tougher version of the nutrient profiling model could put Streeting on a collision course with Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves
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Comment & OpinionIs Exchange for Change a turning point in the UK’s DRS drama?
We’re still whispering it quietly, but could DRS actually make it off the ground? All of a sudden October 2027 doesn’t seem that far away
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Comment & OpinionWhy James Watt buying back BrewDog isn’t as bonkers as it sounds
A character as outspoken and opinionated as Watt was always going to be hard to shake off. Now it seems BrewDog’s controversial founder wants back in
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Tariff u-turn, VFC, franchises, fascias and food waste
We’ve been speaking to a number of exporters since Monday after the US president announced punitive levies on eight European countries
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons is the most intriguing symbol operator right now
On top of the 1,000 company-owned, company-operated Morrisons Daily stores (or ‘co-cos’ as CEO Rami Baitiéh refers to them), there are now 700 ‘fo-fos’, or franchise owned and franchise operated stores
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Comment & OpinionCadbury chocolate treat soothes homesick sister
This ad follows the formula of previous ‘glass and a half in everyone’ ads: a downer with a melty warm centre
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Comment & OpinionThe Lunch They Deserve: powerful film highlights kids’ diet deficiencies
The government doesn’t monitor what’s happening in the school food system, which, says narrator Emma Thompson, ‘means no one is officially checking the quality of the meals served’
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Comment & OpinionToo much, too soon: what went wrong at The Vegan Food Group
Many of the problems faced by The Vegan Food Group were of its own making