Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer

Cookies on FT Sites

We use cookies for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to analyse how our Sites are used.

Accept & continue
Manage cookies
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign InmyFT
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    • Australia & NZ
    Most Read
    • Abortion battle shifts to US Congress and midterm elections
    • US Supreme Court overturns Roe vs Wade in major blow to abortion rights
    • Abortion ruling shows growing might of US Supreme Court’s conservatives
    • ‘We’re going backwards’: a divided America reacts to abortion decision
    • Halting Ukraine war ‘only chance’ to avoid economic crisis, Hungary tells EU
  • US
    Sections
    • US Home
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    Most Read
    • A devastating blow to women’s rights in America
    • Abortion battle shifts to US Congress and midterm elections
    • The case against Trump: Has the January 6 committee changed minds?
    • US Supreme Court overturns Roe vs Wade in major blow to abortion rights
    • Abortion ruling shows growing might of US Supreme Court’s conservatives
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • Rising rates raise prospect of property crash
    • UK ‘altnets’ risk digging themselves into a hole
    • BioNTech/Pfizer say Omicron-targeting boosters elicit strong immune response
    • Pornhub owner MindGeek loses top two executives
    • Michael Saylor: MicroStrategy’s bitcoin true believer
  • Tech
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Cryptocurrencies
    Most Read
    • Stocks snap weekly losing streak on scaled back rate-rise expectations
    • Investors are on recession watch
    • History says US stock market has further to fall
    • Meet Zoltan, the sellside Jules Verne
    • Is it too early for investors to buy the dip?
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • A devastating blow to women’s rights in America
    • Who is worse company, the left or the right?
    • Rethinking the way we travel
    • Far from the battlefield, Moscow’s generals fight a falling birth rate
    • Your phone’s notification settings and the meaning of life
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    Most Read
    • Mikhail Khodorkovsky: ‘Putin has embarked on a route that is going to lead to his demise’
    • Why pay rises for your company’s ‘flight risks’ can backfire
    • Humour in the office matters, but can a boss be funny?
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • Inside the secret, often bizarre world that decides what porn you see
    • Who is worse company, the left or the right?
    • Writer Vladimir Sorokin: ‘I underestimated the power of Putin’s madness’
    • Abortion in America — the road to rolling back Roe vs Wade
    • Best summer books of 2022: Critics’ picks
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • US
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Your guide to a disrupted world

Start a 4-week trial

Food diet

Add to myFT Digest

Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    Health
    Overweight England struggles to break the ‘junk food cycle’

    Boris Johnson’s new health strategy is undermined by stress on ‘individual responsibility’, experts say

  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    News in-depthFood & Beverage
    UK supermarkets prepare to move unhealthy foods out of temptation’s way

    Retailers in England must stop using prominent locations to promote products high in fat, sugar or salt by October

  • Saturday, 4 June, 2022
    News in-depthFood & Beverage
    Big food’s unhealthy products leave bitter taste for ESG investors

    Pandemic puts tackling obesity back in focus as shareholders urge action

  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    Science
    Gene editing enables tomatoes to make ‘sunshine vitamin’

    Development could advance global efforts to tackle vitamin D deficiency affecting around 1bn people

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Johnson delays plans to ban multibuy deals on unhealthy food

    Crackdown on free soft drink refills and limits on junk food advertising also postponed

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Brexit
    UK farmers sound alarm on lack of border checks

    Agriculture and veterinary industries concerned about risk of British livestock contracting diseases from the EU

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Camilla Cavendish
    We have been Big Food’s lab rats for too long

    It is right to regulate companies that managed to convince us ultra-processed stuff is nutritional

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Kellogg Co
    Kellogg to launch legal challenge against new UK rules on food advertising

    US maker of brands including Rice Krispies says it is being unfairly penalised

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    FT SeriesState of Mind special
    The truth about fasting

    Advocates of intermittent fasting say it makes you sharper and slows ageing. But when does it become dangerous?

  • Monday, 14 March, 2022
    Diabetes
    Diabetes support moves into the workplace

    Employers are starting to offer coaching to staff in an effort to manage Type 2 diabetes — one of the US’s costliest diseases

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    News in-depthSpecial Report
    Sustainable Food and Agriculture

    Start-ups from Silicon Valley to Singapore say tomorrow’s milk will come from labs, not cows — and that the planet will be better off for it. Are they right? Plus: funding wrangle hits America’s black farmers; Colombia’s state-of-the-art bean bank

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    Unilever PLC
    Unilever to set new healthy food targets after investor pressure

    World’s largest ice-cream maker pledges to assess performance against six measures

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    Special Report
    Future of AI and Digital Healthcare

    In this joint commission from The Lancet and Financial Times on Governing Health Futures 2030, we explore how AI and other digital advancements are being harnessed to improve healthcare in the world’s poorest regions

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    The Big Read
    Has the appetite for plant-based meat already peaked?

    Despite sales growth falling in the US and UK, an extra $3bn was invested into the sector in 2021

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    LexJapanese business & finance
    Japan dairy: milk-glugging ministers cannot end the glut Premium content

    Some 5,000 tonnes of the white stuff is likely to go down the drain after planners overshoot the mark

  • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
    Nestlé S.A.
    Nestlé unveils plant-based shrimp and eggs as vegan shift accelerates

    Group seeks to capitalise on changing diets and consumer worries about carbon emissions

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    Camilla Cavendish
    The government needs to get a grip on gene editing before the UK loses out

    Other countries may reap the benefits, jobs and profits of pioneering techniques from British scientists

  • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
    Food & Drink8 min
    Lab-grown meat: the future of food?

    Being promoted as a sustainable protein of the future, but can enough lab-grown meat be made to feed the world?

  • Monday, 27 September, 2021
    Special Report
    FT Health: Communicable Diseases

    The pandemic highlighted weaknesses in global health systems but has spurred a powerful response. Plus: how climate change risks backsliding on gains against malaria; long Covid perplexes researchers; new HIV treatments in the pipeline; why the fight against antimicrobial resistance is making slow progress

  • Monday, 27 September, 2021
    Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
    Covid provides fresh impetus to tackle global obesity

    Being overweight not only increases risk of infection for coronavirus, but for cardiovascular conditions and cancers too

  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    Tim Hayward
    Lab-grown meat isn’t about sustainability, it’s big business

    Once ‘meat’ can be manufactured convincingly, those who own the IP will want you to consume much more of it

  • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil suspends beef exports to China after cases of mad cow disease

    World’s biggest producer says no risk to humans after confirming ‘atypical’ incidents in two states

  • Saturday, 31 July, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Tim Spector: the data explorer who uncovered vital clues to Covid

    The epidemiologist on tracking the virus’s symptoms, how diet affects disease — and what he plans next 

  • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
    Inside BusinessLeila Abboud
    French app Yuka brings people power to the supermarket aisle 

    Start-up that grades products’ nutritional value and environmental impact has upset charcuterie makers

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    Camilla Cavendish
    It’s time to stem the tide of junk that reaches British plates

    A tax on sugar and salt in food would be a world first and is more necessary than ever

Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsGroup SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on TwitterFT TransactSecondary Schools

Tools

PortfolioToday's Newspaper (ePaper)Alerts HubBusiness School RankingsEnterprise ToolsNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT CommunityFT LiveFT ForumsFT Board DirectorBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2022. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Financial Times

International Edition

Subscribe for full access
  • Switch to UK Edition
  • Top sections
  • Home
  • World
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    • Australia & NZ
  • US
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Cryptocurrencies
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports
  • FT recommends
  • Lex
  • Alphaville
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • FTfm
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Community
    • FT Live
    • FT Forums
    • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • Today's Newspaper (ePaper)
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In