Health insight and analysis – Page 44
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Comment and Opinion
Action on Sugar raises 79 fingers to WH Smith’s meal deal health vacuum
Pressure group finds some supermarket meal deals contain as much as 30 teaspoons of sugar, or four times an adult’s daily recommended amount
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Comment and Opinion
The health food boom provides M&A opportunities
Over the past 10 years, the healthy foods market has transitioned from being a niche segment to a full-fledged sector
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Comment and Opinion
Scotland takes a radical approach to obesity – with far-reaching implications
There could be some pretty uncomfortable times ahead for some of the nation’s most loved products - under proposed regulations north of the border
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Comment and Opinion
How can we eat more vegetables? Peas Please and the Veg Pledge
The Food Foundation’s veg summit in London looks at ways we can increase our intake of the good things in life …
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Comment and Opinion
Vegfest showcases world of opportunity for vegan foods and brands
With meat alternative brands gunning for the mainstream, where better way to gauge how far the category has come than the recent Vegfest exhibition?
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Category Report
The whey forward: protein report 2017
Brits are chowing down on 2.2% more protein than they did back in 2013. Now big brands are muscling in
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Comment and Opinion
Take mental health seriously: employee care goes beyond HR
World Mental Health Day occurs annually on 10 October. This year the pledge was centred on mental health in the workplace
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Analysis and Features
Plain packaging: who's next?
One colour. One font. Oh, and grim and grisly health warnings. Is the future plain for food and drink packaging?
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Comment and Opinion
Urgent action is needed to protect coconut water's success
Gert van Manen is arguably the original whistleblower on the coconut water boom
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Comment and Opinion
Supermarkets have the data to help shoppers eat healthily – but will they listen?
Many experts believe some public health measures are doomed to fail unless supermarkets start favouring products that are less calorific
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Comment and Opinion
Lifting the Lid highlights past and future of Scottish food
For too long, the Scottish diet has become the butt of jokes about deep-fried Mars bars…
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Comment and Opinion
Shrinkflation betrays consumer love for brands
Sir, McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes is the latest in a growing list of brands succumbing to what’s now known as shrinkflation
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Category Report
The future of sweets? Confectionery category report 2017: health
Health lobbyists want tougher regulation on confectionery to cut the toll it takes on public health
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Analysis and Features
End of sugar quotas 'risks health goals'
Britain could be facing a “new era” of low sugar prices with the removal of the quota, claims analyst Investec
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Comment and Opinion
Autumn’s here, and the turmeric latte is upon us
The coffee alternative has plenty of converts in the US, and now a cup of ’golden milk’ is coming to these shores as grab-and-go chains like Pret A Manger include it in its seasonal menu
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Comment and Opinion
Missing vital ingredients
Why what we think of as nutritious food may be a lot less so than we realise…
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Comment and Opinion
Celebrity vegans will boost diet popularity – but beware the whitewash
News that racing driver Lewis Hamilton has converted to veganism may have met with ridicule in some quarters, but he is part of a growing trend that appeals to those seeking a more healthy lifestyle
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Analysis and Features
10 yoghurts which would fall foul of the PHE calorie cap
PHE has finalised a proposed portion cap for a single-serve yoghurt of 120kcal based on a sales weighted average, with a 175kcal maximum
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Comment and Opinion
Abandon the moral high ground! We need positivity around food
Forget about fads, says Camilla Barnard of Rude Health. Time to rediscover the ‘Eat Everything with Friends and Family’ diet
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco’s squash star critics aren’t seeing the bigger picture
Commentators are vexed that Tesco is encouraging food waste and that cutting veg into cutesy shapes undermines efforts to educate kids on food and healthy eating