Health insight and analysis – Page 22
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Comment and Opinion
Why we should be using social media to inform NPD
There is a treasure trove of opinion on social media that could take much of the sting out of innovation, says Mike Tapp, data director at Capture Intelligence
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Comment and Opinion
Mindset, marketing, mission: how to rethink brands for future HFSS restrictions
The HFSS changes should be viewed as an opportunity to make businesses healthier, says Chris Morley, MD, Kantar Worldpanel UK, Ireland & US
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Comment and Opinion
Our unhealthy, unsustainable food system needs intervention. Where is government?
Surely even the most die-hard free marketeers can’t believe we’ll tackle carbon emissions or childhood obesity without government intervention, says Dan Crossley, executive director at the Food Ethics Council
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Webinar
WATCH: How will HFSS affect store design?
Catch up on our webinar on how retailers are changing store layouts and product placements ahead of the HFSS restrictions coming this October – and what this means for shoppers, brands and sales.
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Comment and Opinion
Is Mindful Chef’s move to offer dieting advice savvy or folly?
Mindful Chef’s customers are a demographic that can weather rising costs and inflation better than most
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Comment and Opinion
National Food Strategy: government has failed us with its lack of commitment on health
This week’s government response echoes only a few of the proposals made by Henry Dimbleby, says Anna Taylor, executive director of The Food Foundation
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Comment and Opinion
Mandatory animal welfare labelling is a win for British farmers and consumers
My hope is that government continues to find ways to champion British farming at the heart of our food system, says James Bailey, executive director at Waitrose
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Comment and Opinion
Mondelez’s Clif Bar move shows UK confectioners are taking nutrition seriously
As HFSS clampdowns loom, Mars and Ferrero have also made moves into healthy snacking
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Comment and Opinion
Why Philip Morris really does want to kill the cigarette (and not humans)
PMI reckons it has ‘made the biggest step to improve public health globally’
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Analysis and Features
What does government’s NFS response mean for future food policy?
It’s not so much a white paper as simply ‘a list of policies’. But the government response to Henry Dimbleby’s work sets out a direction of travel
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Comment and Opinion
National Food Strategy flop was always on the cards, but Dimbleby isn’t done yet
It’s easy to envisage Dimbleby’s proposals being revived in more favourable economic conditions
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Category Report
Are we due a clean energy boom? Energy products category report 2022
Energy drinks are benefiting from returning on-the-go sales. Can the market grow even further with the rise of cleaner lines?
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Comment and Opinion
Gene-edited foods shouldn’t be enabled in the UK while risks are ignored
Government is twisting science and mangling the concept of ‘natural’ to push through gene-edited foods, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment and Opinion
Brands, government and consumers can’t rely on unhealthy food
Most people are looking to retailers to help them make healthier choices, not push HFSS foods at the end of every aisle
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The Big Interview
‘Our biggest risk to health is inertia’: how Kieron Boyle is driving social change in food
Boyle chairs a multitrillion-dollar investor coalition. He’s driving the food industry to take action on obesity levels and health inequalities
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Video
Video briefing: what is next in healthier snacking
Since Covid, almost 90% of shoppers are trying to consume more healthily, but what can we expect next on the healthy snacks agenda?
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Analysis and Features
The levelling up ‘missions’ involving food
The levelling up agenda is based on 12 core ‘missions’ to be achieved by 2030. Five are particularly relevant to food, though as the Food Foundation points out, they will “be impossible without ambitious action to improve the food system”
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Comment and Opinion
HFSS regulation is only one piece of the puzzle in driving healthier choices
While legislative frameworks are an important first step, a range of actions are needed to address societal health issues, says Sharon Bligh, director, Collaboration for Healthier Lives Coalition at The Consumer Goods Forum
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Comment and Opinion
An industry-wide eco-label for food and drink has potential, but getting there may be anything but harmonious
One source told The Grocer they believed it was vital for any eco label to be seen by consumers to be independent of the industry
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Comment and Opinion
Scrapping the ban on bogofs is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things
The real story is the postponement of the pre-watershed advertising ban