Meat insight and analysis – Page 4
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Range Preview
Brown butter galore: preview Asda’s Christmas range 2023
This year, the retailer introduces its first signature flavour: brown butter and spiced dark rum
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Comment and Opinion
Food Matters Live Podcast: juicy chat on lab-grown chicken
‘Cultivated meat: World watches after American approval’ is satisfyingly free of pearl-clutching over ‘frankenmeat’
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Range Preview
A very bao bun Christmas: Tesco’s festive range 2023
Tesco says goodbye to boring old turkey and hello to slow cooked sloe gin duck, and other show-stopping centrepiece alternatives in its Christmas 2023 range
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Comment and Opinion
Gregg Wallace serves Swift in Channel 4’s ‘Miracle Meat’ satire
Some 85 years after Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds and many of us are still vulnerable to falling for mock-media
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Comment and Opinion
Why Feedback is calling out supermarket greenwashing
Retailers are indulging in numerous green gimmicks which risk contravening new guidance on greenwashing from the CMA, says Jessica Sinclair Taylor, head of policy at Feedback
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Range Preview
Preview Tesco’s spicy new Taste Shack range
Tesco has launched Taste Shack, a new brand designed to ‘spice up the nation’s mealtimes’
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Stuffing inspiration and sparkling salmon: Waitrose Christmas range 2023
Waitrose is already gearing up for the holiday season. Here’s a sneak peek at its Christmas range for 2023, featuring over 140 new products
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Comment and Opinion
Plant-based naysayers’ debate lacks nutritional value
Doubt cast on the nutritional benefits of plant-based dairy alternatives (or lack of)
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Analysis and Features
Why are supermarkets ignoring the Better Chicken Commitment?
Despite ‘Frankenchicken’ headlines and activist campaigns designed to shame retailers, few have adopted the BCC poultry welfare standard
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Comment and Opinion
It’s no surprise soaring costs have sent vegan brands to the wall
Evidence shows growth in plant-based products has slumbered this year due to price increases, says Heck co-founder Jamie Keeble
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Analysis and Features
How Great Cornish Food Store champions local produce
The Great Cornish Food Store shares its space with a big retailer, but the two are not rivals. They are partners in a bid to highlight local food and drink
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Comment and Opinion
New York Fancy Food Show 2023: seven emerging trends
Joyful marketing and ‘flavour pearls’ were on the menu, says Chris Blythe, director at The Brand Nursery
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Comment and Opinion
How brands can take control of the aspartame debate
Brands that continue to use artificial sweeteners should take stock from the meat industry’s response to the IARC’s 2015 report, says Liam Keogh, co-founder of Palm PR
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Comment and Opinion
Britain’s meat supply chains remain vulnerable to antibiotic failure
Back in 2015, we were waking up to a world facing an impending ’antibiotic apocalypse’ due to the overuse of critical antibiotics in animals and people. Have we come far enough?
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Comment and Opinion
Nutritious, less processed options can reinvigorate the meat-free market
Brands that offer genuinely natural, nutritious meat-free options have the advantage, says Elin Roberts, co-founder and CMO at Better Nature Tempeh
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Profiles and QandAs
My food & drink job: Micol Mottura, category & shopper intern, Peperami
‘I would encourage sending open applications to food and drink businesses that you find interesting, even if there are no current positions available’
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Range Preview
Morrisons jumps on hot honey, apple cider and mochi trends in summer range
As heatwaves continue across the UK, Morrisons is gearing up for a sizzling summer with the launch of its new seasonal range
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Analysis and Features
Why Macknade CEO Stefano Cuomo sees a bright future for independent grocery
‘What gels a community is regular grocery retail, and it is very difficult to do outside of the supermarkets’, he says
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Comment and Opinion
Meat-free isn’t in freefall: why shoppers still want plant-based swaps
The fundamental shopper needs that have driven plant-based over the past decade haven’t changed, says Georgina Bradford, nutrition marketing director at Unilever UK&I
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Comment and Opinion
Lacklustre ultra-processed foods Panorama didn’t probe nearly enough
Too much time was spent on well-worn scares about emulsifiers, sweeteners and additives