Health insight and analysis – Page 12
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Comment and Opinion
Ultra-processed food can be nutritious – depending on its makers’ motives
It’s not about UPF versus healthy, let alone debunked dead-ends like calories and HFSS, says Modern Baker co-founder Leo Campbell
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Category Report
What can challengers learn from Prime? Soft drinks category report 2023
Prime has racked up explosive sales thanks to its celebrity status. Does it hold any lessons for other up-and-coming drinks brands?
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Comment and Opinion
The future looks rosier at Planet Organic after surprise rescue by founder Renée Elliott
Suppliers – not to mention employees – will have breathed a sigh of relief yesterday as Planet Organic secured an unlikely rescue spearheaded by the chain’s founder Renée Elliott
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Category Report
How have the HFSS rules changed yoghurts? Yoghurts category report 2023
Indulgent yoghurts and pot desserts are suffering from volume slumps. Do they have a future in the post-HFSS environment?
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Comment and Opinion
On Earth Day, let's work to reduce meat consumption
Government should invest in public awareness campaigns that promote plant-based diets, says Jonathan Petrides, founder of Allplants
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Analysis and Features
What does the new underage vaping clampdown need to do to work?
Government is seeking evidence and boosting Trading Standards
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Comment and Opinion
Sweet relief: it’s time to accept the truth about sweeteners
Even as the evidence against sweeteners mounts, the $2bn industry behind them shows no sign of slowing
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Comment and Opinion
Compostable plastic was never the answer. But a circular economy is still possible
The world of innovation is moving fast, leapfrogging ‘less bad’ solutions to a better way entirely, says Siân Sutherland, co-founder & chief, A Plastic Planet and PlasticFree
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Category Report
Why are nut sales falling? Nuts category report 2023
Sales of nuts have tumbled as Brits reach instead for a packet of crisps. What can suppliers do to reverse the decline?
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Comment and Opinion
Why retailers are ‘leanwashing’ on sugar reduction
Nine of the 10 biggest supermarkets have no policy to measure total sugar sales, says Hattie Burt, senior policy & international projects officer at Action on Sugar
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Analysis and Features
Is the Food Standards Agency and its National Food Crime Unit fit for purpose?
With the industry far from certain how deep the meat fraud scandal runs, serious questions have been raised about how it has been dealt with
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Comment and Opinion
If the government is serious about fighting obesity, it must support SMEs
Grants for SMEs may lack the big soundbite potential, but they could actually get some results
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Comment and Opinion
Why tackling obesity is about far more than cutting salt and sugar
Food and drink is the UK’s largest manufacturing sector, and filling kitchen cupboards up and down the country rightly comes with responsibilities, says Kate Halliwell, chief scientific officer at the Food & Drink Federation
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Category Report
Should 0.5% drinks be called alcohol-free? Low & no category report 2023
Brands are debating whether 0.5% beverages should be classified as non-alcoholic. Could broader label definitions boost low & no?
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Comment and Opinion
Food manufacturing can – and should – attract the top engineering talent
Engineers play a fundamental role in food – without them, the sector would lack vital skills to ensure it can maintain production, says Ben Cooper, UK head of engineering at Bakkavor
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Comment and Opinion
Don’t go mad: Boots’s Seb James gives seven rules for tough times
The Boots UK & ROI MD set out his secrets to success at the Retail Week Live conference
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Profiles and QandAs
My food & drink job: Madeleine Slade, community manager, Hux Health
‘There’s so many different roles out there, some I never even considered would exist. It’s a really fun industry to be a part of, just be willing to get stuck in!’
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Analysis and Features
Should the FSA standardise the safe daily CBD dosage?
The Food Standards Agency seems unlikely to recommend specific dosage levels
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Comment and Opinion
Ravenous: Henry Dimbleby pulls no punches about policy in food tsar tell-all
Henry Dimbleby’s latest book must be one of the most exhaustively researched works of all time
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Comment and Opinion
Nestlé and Unilever risk causing confusion with health reporting. But it’s a positive first step
For now, it’s barely possible to understand the reporting without a degree in maths