All Health articles – Page 97
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InterviewsSkinny Food Co founders on taking a leaf out of the Heinz playbook
The Skinny Food Co’s founders started out with £3k and an idea. Now they’re turning over £35m, and eyeing the US and China
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Comment & OpinionWhy compliance matters for the vape industry
A few years ago the vape industry fought hard against a complete ban on e-cigarettes. We met with whatever politicians would talk to us. We encouraged customers to write to their representatives. I appeared on TV and radio (which I hate!), reached out to media and wrote ...
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NewsProper adds first non-HFSS popcorn
Each serving weighed in at 134 calories, providing a ’healthier alternative for the big night in’, said Proper
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NewsBoots rolling out packaging recycling scheme to an additional 650 stores
The scheme rewards customers for returning ‘hard-to-recycle’ packaging such as toothpaste tubes and make-up palettes
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NewsSuperdrug confirms 19 stores will offer NHS Covid booster jabs
Those eligible for the booster jab will be contacted by the NHS
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Comment & OpinionWhy China is the next big market for British brands’ post-pandemic recovery
British brands are being buoyed by China’s faster-than-expected economic recovery, pent-up demand and a swelling middle class, says Alibaba’s Zarina Kanji
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NewsLeon launches ‘plant-rich’ soups and salads range into Sainsbury’s
The six-strong product range was ’perfect for convenient, plant-rich, work from home meals’, said Leon
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NewsPlant-based nitrites replacement may cut link between red meat and cancer
The Phytome project used a mixture of botanicals to develop nitrite-free cooked and dry cured red meats
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NewsMcCain-backed vegan dips and sauces brand Simple Root makes debut
The range had been developed in collaboration with McCain Foods and Pilot Lite Capital using an ‘innovative technology’, which gave root vegetables a ‘creamy taste and texture’, said McCain
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Analysis & FeaturesHow brands are shifting to low-sugar, no-sugar and functional confectionery
Source: Getty Images Confectioners have been issued an ultimatum: ditch the sugar or brace yourselves for a huge sales hit. That’s easier said than done when the white stuff can comprise up to three-quarters of your goods. “The industry has been developing low-sugar or sugar-free ranges ...
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Analysis & FeaturesCreative challenge: how chocolate brands can tackle the ad clampdown
New rules mean confectionery advertisers will have to work a lot harder to attract attention
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NewsGenie Drinks mounts challenge to soft drinks giants with first TV ad
The ad has launched as part of Sky’s SME Support campaign, a £1m fund that aims to help businesses recover from the effects of the pandemic
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NewsHeineken ditches Amstel 66 low-calorie lager
Heineken launched the 3% abv beer, which drew its name from the fact one bottle contained 66 calories, in March 2020
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Category ReportKiss of life? Confectionery category report 2021
Shoppers treat themselves during tough times – the so-called ‘lipstick effect’. But will HFSS rules stop a post-Covid sweet boom?
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NewsBoots to offer Covid booster jabs alongside ‘biggest ever’ winter flu jab programme
Winter flu jab bookings have inreased 67% compared with last year, accoridng to the health and pharmacy retailer
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons’ sick pay cut for unvaccinated staff is unfair
Morrisons’ interfering mandate looks less like a thoughtful contribution to disease avoidance than a panicky attempt to bolster profits, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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NewsFul brings ‘climate active’ blue spirulina soft drinks to the UK
The microalgae Ful uses to make its drinks absorb up to two times their weight in carbon
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NewsFarming industry on verge of mental health crisis, senior figures warn
According to the BGA & NFU, the accumulation of post-Brexit and Covid-19-related pressures has damaged farmers’ health and wellbeing
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Analysis & FeaturesRestrictions on confectionery advertising in-store, online and on TV explained
Big squeeze: HFSS to lose two thirds of store space
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NewsFDF signs raft of food & drink players up to Action on Fibre initiative
Backed by General Mills, Premier Foods, Nestlé, Pladis and more, the initiative would make high-fibre diets ‘more appealing, normal and easy for the population’, said the FDF