Impact Score allows shoppers to measure the nutritional and sustainability profiles of food and beverage products. FoodNavigator catches up with co-founder Ian Yates to find out how.
Environmental claims made by alt dairy heavyweight Oatly have been judged to mislead consumers by the ASA. Oatly and carbon footprint partner CarbonCloud respond.
The COVID-19 global pandemic had a drastic and sudden impact on how people shop and eat. As we move to a new normal where – the hope is – we are able to shift gears and learn to ‘live with COVID’, how will people’s attitudes to food continue to evolve?
In a post-Brexit setting, legislative divergence and alignments in food labelling create challenges and opportunities for UK-based food operators, according to Jessica Burt, Associate of Food Law at Mills & Reeve.
UK food label scheme Red Tractor is investigating just how concerned consumers are about animal welfare, and whether current perceptions of production methods match reality.
A new sustainable food app has launched promising to reveal to end consumers a greater level of transparency about the environmental impact of their food choices.
From messaging hierarchy to space on-pack and data availability, a ‘massive amount’ of challenges face retailers when labelling food, according to Claire Hughes, Director of Product and Innovation at Sainsbury’s.
Over 40% of consumers have already adopted reusable grocery packaging and are ‘thinking about’ using reusable packaging reveals new consumer research from the UK-based group which aims to give suppliers and retailers insight into consumer attitudes towards...
From slaughterhouses to cutting plants and meat processors, Spain’s meat industry is ‘totally against’ front-of-pack nutritional labelling scheme Nutri-Score. FoodNavigator hears why.
The European Commission released details on its carbon strategy this week, with carbon farming central to its hopes for CO2 removals. Plans include the development of a certification system – but a row is brewing over how this should be defined and measured....
A Wageningen University spin-off is developing a plant-based fat ingredient from European-grown sunflower seeds, designed to boost alt dairy’s nutritional and sustainability profile, as well as mouthfeel.
The wording of approved EU health claims is prescriptive and precise. The intention of the regulation is to protect consumers from unfounded or overblown statements. But it is also to inform. Are health claims doing their job?
HowGood’s Latis database, which can rapidly verify the impact of more than 33,000 ingredients and products against 127 key environmental and social impact metrics, has added the EU’s Nutri-Score and French Eco-Score labelling systems into its metrics...
