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With chocolate eggs very much on our minds this week there is one question: how do you pay for yours?  New analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has found that the average price per kilo of cocoa beans… Read More

Marketing of unhealthy foods has come under scrutiny this week as campaigners warn of the pervasive nature of adverts promoting products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS). Newly published research conducted by Bite Back, the University of Liverpool and Impact on… Read More

This week we are left searching for good news on bad days for animals in the foodservice chain.  March presented a fowl day for foodservice as the likes of Compass, Elior, KFC, Pizza Hut and Sodexo struggled to stick to the Better… Read More

There has been much chatter this week over the make-up of the government’s food strategy expert group amid murmurs that the process has been captured by big business interests. To recap: last Friday Defra revealed the names of the leading… Read More

Let’s start this week in the US: ‘Your grass-fed burger isn’t better for the planet,’ runs a headline in The Washington Post. The article is on the back of a new study, published in the journal PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,… Read More

“One model to rule them all!” You’ll have to forgive this week’s Digest for channelling our inner Tolkien, such is our excitement at news that researchers have been awarded funding to create a model to categorise foods based on both… Read More

This week’s rundown features cow burps and beans as food comes to the fore in the UK’s seventh carbon budget. Pulses are again racing in the organic food sector as sales “bounce back”. And, in a surprise to no-one, Defra… Read More

It’s been a little while since we talked about packaging, so let’s start with the Bottle Weight Accord’s first birthday. This is the commitment the likes of Accolade Wines, Tesco, The Wine Society, Viña Concha y Toro and, most recently, Albert Heijn,… Read More

We begin this week’s whistle-stop news tour with dairy giant Arla, which once again finds its environmental efforts under the microscope. Fresh from batting away criticism of its use of methane-reducing cow feed supplement, Bovear, the dairy cooperative now stands… Read More

This week we have gone all bite-size with our round-up, such is the quantity of news flooding our system. There is good news. There is bad news. Can we, like the Eatwell plate, get the balance right? Let’s get fresh. More… Read More