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Functionality goes health-specific in 2025

10 Jul 2025

Innova Market Insights has identified functional food and beverage (F&B) launches as a leading response to consumers’ efforts to live healthier lives.

Producers explore traceability to lower food waste and loss

1 Jul 2025

The World Economic Forum has identified traceability technology and tools as emerging anti-loss and waste mechanisms throughout the F&B supply chain.

Coca-Cola accused of ‘sportswashing’ amid FIFA sponsorship storm

30 Jun 2025

Doctors and health campaigners are calling for football's governing body, FIFA, to drop Coca-Cola as a 2025 Club World Cup sponsor, accusing the multinational of “sportswashing”.

Consumers join coalition in call for nitrites ban

26 Jun 2025

European consumers overwhelmingly support a ban on nitrites, according to a coalition of world-leading scientists and politicians who warn that continued inaction is putting public health at risk.

Stressing health benefits of frozen foods can counter consumer resistance

24 Jun 2025

Many consumers express reservations about frozen food – but on-point messaging about health benefits can help manufacturers counter this resistance, says the British Frozen Foods Federation.

Cross-industry AI initiative hoped to slash food waste

12 Jun 2025

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool pilot involving Nestlé is hoped to reduce food waste and ensure surplus products find a home quickly.

H&B 'transformation' hoped to demystify health and wellness market

3 Jun 2025

Holland & Barrett is undergoing a transformation, with new product launches and a revamp of its supplement ranges, in a bid to demystify what it describes as “an increasingly complex” health and wellness market.

Study finds sharp generational divide in online food ordering

22 May 2025

Gen Z consumers are six times more likely to order food online than generation X, an analysis suggests.

Grocery retail shows cautious optimism and stabilisation

15 May 2025

Health and functionality, personalisation, convenience, advancing technologies, and sustainability dominate the grocery retail landscape and the shoppers of the future.