All Ultra-processed foods (UPF) articles
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Comment & OpinionThe great protein panic: are we solving a problem most people don’t have?
Supermarket shelves and social feeds are obsessed with protein targets, but for most healthy adults the bigger risk is losing sight of everything else on the plate, says Dr Ando Ahnan-Winarno, founder and COO at Better Nature
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Category ReportProtein continues to flex its muscles
Brits are going potty for protein. Which brands are winning the power struggle?
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Comment & OpinionHow food brands can resolve the industry’s trust problem
The problem isn’t always what food brands say. Sometimes it’s what the packaging, the language and the visual cues lead us to believe. Ben Martin asks whether the industry needs a clearer line between persuasion and implication.
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Aldi x Lidl, budget hopes and falling fibre fans
Lidl and Aldi are now in competition with each other, rather than their full line rivals, as Tesco is taken to task on preservatives, and Andy Burnham explores different options for the UK’s relationship with the EU
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Comment & OpinionTesco needs to show its workings on additives
Tesco wouldn’t say which additives it had banned, which it was restricting, how it had decided on what to include in its list, where it was on the journey or, crucially, how long it would all take
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NewsThree in 10 Tesco own-label products contain ‘high-risk’ additives despite crackdown
Exclusive Yuka analysis for The Grocer finds 30.6% of Tesco own-label products contain at least one high-risk additive, raising questions about the retailer’s recent claim to have banned or restricted 114 additives.
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Feature SynopsisFocus On Food On-The-Go: 21 November
Retailers and high-street outlets are revamping their breakfast offers – so how are consumers responding?
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Comment & OpinionWhy do supermarkets still sell ‘cancer-causing’ sandwiches?
Despite the efforts being made to move away from the additive in chilled meat ranges, prepared and ready meals remain a significant blind spot for the supermarkets
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NewsOcado claims UK first with ‘Simple Ingredients’ aisle launch
More than 350 branded products feature in the aisle, which the online pureplayer claimed to be the ‘first dedicated supermarket aisle of its kind in the UK’
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NewsTesco follows M&S with a Finest Just X ingredients meat range
The Finest Just X Ingredients range has been made in response to rising consumer demand for products made with fewer ingredients
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Comment & OpinionWhere does UPF fit in the future of convenience food?
Three experts give their take on how concerns over UPFs will shape convenience food
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NewsJason’s Sourdough owner lays ground for £500m sale on back of stellar growth
Independent M&A advisory firm Spayne Lindsay is helping Jason’s parent Geary’s Bakeries explore strategic options, including a sale, The Grocer has learned
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NewsGrape Tree grows sales by more than 22% as store expansion pays off
Profits grew 40% as the health and wellness retailer was able to capitalise on demand for organic food and the backlash against UPFs
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NewsWaitrose changes ‘Good Health’ label criteria to focus on nutrition and transparency
Alongside a new ‘Good Health’ logo, the retailer said it was shifting from traditional low-calorie and low-fat metrics to include better ingredient and nutrition criteria and transparency
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Category ReportPremium lines drive block butter’s success
There’s a new style of parenting on the rise. It’s called being a butter mum
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Partner FeaturesFunctional focus: reaching the new functional food shopper
With functional food now mainstream in Britain, this fast-growing category represents a huge opportunity for retailers and suppliers to create healthy profits.
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Health Summit friction, Asda growth and Diageo’s mid-strength move
Feathers were ruffled at The Grocer Health Summit, but there was real value in bringing together voices that rarely share the same stage
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NewsVan Tulleken calls on supermarkets to create ‘cartel’ against ultra-processed foods
The Ultra Processed People author told The Grocer’s Health Summit that the leaders of the food industry had ‘much more power than they realised’ to tackle the obesity crisis
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Comment & OpinionThe Grocer Health Summit: who’s to blame for obesity crisis?
In the days leading up to the summit, the significance of the occasion was rammed home by a series of major announcements and calls on health
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NewsFormer health minister attacks food & drink industry over ‘tobacco-style’ tactics
James Bethell accused supermarkets and food manufacturers of using the same ‘deny, distract, and delay’ tactics used by the tobacco industry before governments finally cracked down on it with sweeping marketing bans