All Obesity articles – Page 34
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NewsJess Cooks bags £100k seed funding for growth drive
Children’s frozen food start-up Jess Cooks has secured £100k in seed funding to scale the business and build nationwide retail distribution.
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NewsCalls for mandatory nutritional labelling across food to promote healthier diets
Action on Salt and Sugar said the move could potentially prevent diet-related diseases such as obesity, strokes and heart attacks
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NewsUK’s cultured meat sector ‘could be worth £2.1bn to economy’
British startup Ivy Farm Technologies has called on the government to support the UK’s emerging lab-grown meat sector
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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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Category ReportThe new era of innovation in chocolate: confectionery category report 2021
With confectioners facing an ad ban, launching new lines is set to get tougher. Will brands keep innovating in this environment?
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Category ReportThe end of big bang marketing? Confectionery category report 2021
Looming HFSS restrictions could make famous ads like the Cadbury gorilla a thing of the past. How are confectionery brands adapting?
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat would a national food database achieve across the environment, food security and health?
What is Henry Dimbleby’s idea for a national food database all about? Why does Henry Dimbleby think a national food database is his most important recommendation? What would a national food database achieve across the environment, food security and health?
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Feature SynopsisFocus On Confectionery: 11 September
The marketing landscape is about to get a whole lot harder for confectionery brands
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Analysis & FeaturesHow brands can navigate the junk food advertising ban
Restrictions on TV and online advertising of HFSS products are imminent, with the potential to do ‘huge damage’. So what are brands doing to stay visible to shoppers?
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Comment & OpinionHow Tropicana fell victim to the war on sugar
With so much focus on sugar, PepsiCo felt selling the health benefits of juice was too much
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NewsCalbee launches veg & pulse snacks under Harvest Snaps brand
It’s the latest in a flurry of activity from crisps brands attempting to make their offers healthier as the government’s HFSS clampdown looms
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Comment & OpinionNew taxes on food will impact producers at the bottom of the supply chain
Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy seems to ignore the dynamics of grocery pricing, says Mark Lumsdon-Taylor, chair of the Rural Policy Group
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Comment & OpinionBreaking the ‘junk food cycle’: why swift industry intervention is necessary
Initiatives that assume people are low on money, time, and headspace are the only ones with any evidence of working at scale to change diets, says Sarah Hickey of Impact on Urban Health
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Analysis & FeaturesThe real food system changes we’re likely to see in the wake of the National Food Strategy
Supermarkets have backed Dimbleby’s call for transparent reporting, but there are signs it may put them on a collision course with suppliers
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NewsJunk food promotions ban delayed after outcry over timeframe
Retailers and suppliers had urged the government to think again about the April 2022 introduction date
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NewsHousehold cost of food to soar by £160 a year due to new regulations, claim food bosses
The FDF estimates increased costs in 2022-23 alone to exceed £4.4bn
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NewsSupermarkets back Henry Dimbleby’s call for mandatory reporting on healthy sales
The report claimed that the government’s voluntary reformulation programme had failed
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy means for food businesses
Dimbleby is urging ministers to ‘break the cycle’ of bad diet with a raft of drastic new taxes - but critics are questioning the sense
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Comment & OpinionDimbleby’s report could signal beginning of long-term change in food and drink
Not all of Dimbleby’s food strategy is practical, but it will change the way government thinks
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NewsNational Food Strategy: industry reacts to ‘wake-up call’ report
Businesses and industry bodies have been left stunned by some of the measures outlined in Dimbleby’s report