Health insight and analysis – Page 77
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Category ReportFocus on Functional Food
Brands are enlisting superhero ingredients to boost functional credentials. Can superfoods deliver super sales?…
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Comment & OpinionSugar debate must recognise personal responsibility
When the government announced a cull of quangos in 2010, one of the 192 bodies on its hit list was SACN…
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Comment & OpinionManuka honey claims backed by science
I enjoyed reading Simon Creasey’s article on the New Zealand manuka honey industry…
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Comment & OpinionHealth facts and science not hype must be front of mind
Our health is one of, if not the, most vital and important aspect of our lives…
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Comment & OpinionSweet and sour manifesto
The rhetoric over added sugars in our diet has reached fever pitch on both sides of the Atlantic…
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Comment & OpinionMore action is needed on sugar
The SACN draft report on carbohydrates and health should be a wake-up call to the government, food industry and consumers…
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Category ReportFocus on Lunchbox
Schools are policing lunchboxes. Parents may be packing kids off with more fruit, but 26% admit flouting packed lunch rule…
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Analysis & FeaturesSACN and the war to crush sugar: 10 things you need to know
It’s not just fizzy drinks under fire. SACN and PHE are driving radical demands for slashing sugar across the board…
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Analysis & FeaturesBear snacks bridge gap between happy and healthy
It’s amazing what can come out of a cave. The founders of fruit snack brand Bear now have a multimillion pound business…
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Comment & OpinionEnergy drinks' success shows way forward for health messages
The issue of unhealthy drinks remains high on the news agenda, with sugar in particular proving a major hot potato…
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Comment & OpinionTesco's gold initiative
The intense debate surrounding sugar and artificial ingredients remains at the very top of the national media’s agenda…
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Comment & OpinionSACN sugar bombshell must be dealt with collaboratively
Rarely can a report seven years in the making have lived up to the hype…
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Comment & OpinionSugar Thursday
Traffic-light labelling appears to have fizzled out. Will we ever achieve a universal system?
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Comment & OpinionWhy producers need to be ready for the new labelling legislation
The changes to food labelling that come into force in December are to be welcomed if they improve customer confidence…
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Category ReportFocus on Sports & Energy Drinks
As sugar comes under fire from every angle, one of the sweetest soft drinks sectors of all is flying…
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Comment & OpinionSoft drinks work to a new agenda
We’re constantly told the world is becoming more health-orientated and fizzy drinks and salt are the big fmcg evils…
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Comment & OpinionWhy Coke is launching Coca-Cola Life
An increasingly technologically driven world has resulted in some of the biggest shifts in fmcg ever…
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Comment & OpinionAds can be force for good
Last week’s Dispatches, Tricks of the Junk Food Business (C4, 2 June), reopened the discussion on the ethics of advertising…
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Category ReportFocus on healthcare & supplements
Diet pill sales have surged 74% since 2012 as our weight problem has worsened…
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Comment & OpinionCoca-Cola Life - The Taste Test
How does the new Coca-Cola Life compare to its stablemates?