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Comment & OpinionEditor’s Picks: M&S’s Only Ingredients, healthy eating out of reach, GLP-1 pills
It’s been a busy week on The Grocer, dominated by our Health Week coverage, which permeates all the sections of the publication
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Comment & OpinionIrn-Bru smashes it with Scottish World Cup anthem
Irn-Bru reveals Scotland’s secret weapon – which is that ‘we’re made in Scotland, from girders’, of course
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Comment & OpinionGroundswell: uplifting climate documentary makes case for regen-ag
The documentary, narrated by Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore, is less concerned with the amount of carbon in the air and more with the lack of it in the soil
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Comment & OpinionThe protein boom isn’t over – it’s evolving
Protein is still important but consumers are waking up to the risks of products that focus too narrowly on one nutrient, says Dr Ando Ahnan-Winarno, co-founder and COO at Better Nature
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Comment & OpinionUltra-processed food: history and controversy
Foods classed as UPFs are a long-standing part of modern life, making up around 60% of many people’s diets sayys Professor Sarah Berry, professor of nutritional sciences at King’s College London
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Comment & OpinionIn wellness, the proof is in the second purchase
Trial may be easy to win but loyalty is not. As functional food and drinks goes mainstream, retention not acquisition is where the opportunity lies, says Claire Tassin, principal strategist at Mintel Wellness Research
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Comment & OpinionWill we really see cancer warnings on bacon sandwiches?
A decade after a WHO agency published a damning report linking processed meats – and the nitrites used to cure them – to cancer, The Grocer reported back in October that UK governments had done “virtually nothing” to reduce exposure to the chemical
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Comment & OpinionThe NPM reforms are solving a problem the evidence doesn't support
The food industry spent billions reformulating products at the government’s request and now faces having to do so again, says Ian Wright, partner at Acuti Associates
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Comment & OpinionThe drinks industry is solving the wrong problem
When it comes to low & no alcohol, the category may be booming but innovation is sadly lacking, says Chris Friend, managing partner Amsterdam at Superson
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Comment & OpinionHealthier diets are good for Britain but they need to be good for business too
Obesity has doubled in England since the 1990s. The food system needs to change but so do the economics, says Hannah Daley, head of health & sustainable diets at IGD
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Comment & OpinionGLP-1 fat jabs are a potential goldmine for supermarkets
Weight loss drugs wiped £780m from household grocery spend in the year to the end of February 2026 but there’s another side to this story
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Comment & OpinionThe government’s NPM reforms risk undermining progress
Proposed changes to Nutrient Profile Modelling will at best slow down – and at worst start to reverse – some of the positive changes in healthier food sales, says Kate Halliwell, chief scientific officer at the Food and Drink Federation
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Comment & OpinionWhy Sainsbury’s is taking fibremaxxing to the masses
Sainsbury’s relatively simple packaging change could very easily go under the radar, but it’s also a significant move that has the potential to make a huge difference
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Comment & OpinionCould the meat industry be about to have its ‘tobacco moment’?
The campaign against eating meat is building and the industry needs to listen, says Mike Coppen-Gardner, founder and chief executive at WeAreSPQR
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Comment & OpinionStop treating the World Cup like just another promotional moment
The World Cup is the biggest retail occasion of the year – so why are so many brands still thinking tactically, asks Patrick Finlay, MD at The Category Management Company
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Comment & OpinionYour Voice: Morrisons, EPR and dynamic pricing
I worked on the Morrisons brand 15 years ago. Back then, the business had a distinctive advantage in grocery retail: its vertically integrated model
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Comment & OpinionRetail knows how to market visible trends. GLP-1s are different
GLP-1 users are changing how Britain shops – and the signals are hiding in plain sight, says Vicki Baker, head of retail trade and hospitality at Cirkle
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Comment & OpinionA new nutrient profiling model is on the horizon whether fmcg is ready or not
With the clock ticking down to the midnight deadline on 17 June for responses to the government’s consultation on shifting to the 2018 nutrient profiling model, a full-blown battle royal is brewing
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Comment & OpinionInclusion doesn’t happen in boardrooms – it happens on the factory floor
Nearly six in 10 food manufacturing employees want leaders to tackle exclusionary behaviour – but most aren’t listening, says Laura Ryan, founder and global chair at Meat Business Women
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Comment & OpinionWhy supermarkets need a plant-based protein target
The government has a chance to transform how supermarkets sell food – it should take it, says Mark Cuddigan, CEO of This