All Sugar articles
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Comment & Opinion
Retailers and food brands must help silence the ‘food noise’
Nearly nine out of 10 Brits admit to eating when they’re not actually hungry and almost half say they think about food ‘all the time’, says Zoe Griffiths, VP of behavioural medicine at Numan
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News
Associated British Foods struggles with losses for Allied Bakeries and sugar business
ABF CEO George Weston said in a trading update this morning that he was ‘pleased’ with how the group performed in the second half of its financial year
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News
Momo Kombucha raises £2m in biggest funding round to date
The cash – raised from 24 angels, including Brixton Brewery co-founder Jez Galaun and Natoora founder Franco Fubini – is earmarked for a new fit out of the brewery at New Covent Garden Market to help the business scale faster
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Promotional Features
How to win in a new world of snacking
As consumers redefine snacking and category boundaries blur, find out how well-known brands and retailers are rethinking how they approach the sector – and what might constitute a successful snack brand of the future
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News
Tributes flood in for salt and sugar professor who took food industry to task
Professor Graham MacGregor died peacefully with his family around him on Monday.
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News
Labour revives energy drinks ban ditched by Tories as ‘nanny state’
Health secretary Wes Streeting claimed the move could prevent obesity in up to 40,000 children
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Comment & Opinion
Babyfood health guidelines are welcome, but are they enough?
The guidelines are a welcome step but they stop short of decisive action, says Ali Morpeth, visiting research fellow and Diane Threapleton, senior research fellow at the University of Leeds
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News
Promo study academics meet government to call for extension of HFSS ban
The experts will call on the DHSC and Defra to expand the scope of the ban beyond the 13 pre-packaged products covered by the original legislation brought in by the previous government
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News
Morrisons’ Christmas chocolate tubs deal angers health campaigners ahead of bogof ban
Morrisons said this week it was helping customers stock up on family favourites ahead of Christmas
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News
Children face avalanche of HFSS promotions from social media influencers
A survey carried out by Cancer Research UK found more than half of young social media users reported seeing posts relating to HFSS products in the past month
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News
Holie’s wins court battle against Lotus Bakeries over sugar callout
An online campaign by Holie’s called out the high sugar content of a Nakd snack bar
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarkets must stop treating real food like a luxury
Cheap, sugar-filled options addictive, fast and convenient, but they’re also undermining our health and our connection to real food, says Carl Saxton-Pizzie, founder and CEO at Wholegood
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco’s Birthday Cake sandwich: harmless fun or public health fiasco?
Tesco’s Birthday Cake sandwich has raised comments over its nutritional value. But it’s only around for four weeks
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Comment & Opinion
Ultra-processed babyfood is a public health emergency
A major new study has found 87% of baby snacks and 79% of baby cereals are ultra-processed, says Diane Threapleton, senior research fellow in nutrition at the University of Leeds
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News
Lotus Bakeries takes legal action against cereal startup Holie’s
The Belgian snacking giant accused Holie’s of engaging in misleading comparative advertising
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News
Ad industry launches voluntary less healthy food ad ban compliance campaign
The Advertising Association, ISBA, the IPA, IAB UK and IMTB, among others, are working to urge advertisers, agency creatives, media owner sales teams, influencer marketing agencies, fmcg brands and retailers to ‘Don’t be on the Naughty List’
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News
Naturelly halts jelly pouch production following distribution losses
‘We just no longer have the big volume customers for this product,’ said Naturelly
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Comment & Opinion
Ozempic is the death knell for traditional marketing nudges
Ozempic is reshaping behaviour – and in a world where marketing has long relied on behavioural nudges, that’s a problem, says Jon Williams, founder & CEO of The Liberty Guild
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Promotional Features
How refreshment products are beating the odds
The dynamics in oral refreshment are shifting, driven by changing consumer needs and the recent shake-up in HFSS compliance in the confectionery category. So how can retailers capitalise?
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News
Scottish government backtracks on plans for draconian HFSS clampdown
Holyrood has rowed back on plans for a ban on all promotions of HFSS products, instead announcing it would mirror the promotions ban brought in under the last Westminster government