World foods is where free-from was 20 years ago. It needs its trailblazers

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World foods is a £1.8bn category with no agreed identity and no standout brands, says The Black Farmer’s Alex Emmanuel-Jones

Walk down the world food aisle of any supermarket and ask yourself what it is for. A taste of home? The dish you saw on TikTok? Imported brands, or British brands with global flavours? It is all of these at once, and none of them convincingly. It is the only aisle in the store built around an idea nobody has ever agreed on.

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