Image Journal articles Global food expenditure patterns diverge between low-income and high-income countries This paper argues that food expenditure patterns of lower-income countries are not adopting diets of affluent countries contrary to the belief that globalisation, income-growth and cultural trends are causing a shift in diet. The researchers analyse food expenditure patterns, including ultra-processed foods, in 90 different countries. Read
Image Podcast episode Presenting "Less And Better?: Ep 1: Its Complicated" It feels like one of the biggest questions of our time: what do we do about meat? Read
Image Journal articles What consumers want in a sustainability food label This article aims to explore the consumer perceptions and preferences for sustainability in food production and food labels through interactive workshops conducted in the UK, Ireland, and Denmark. The researchers find that consumers lack necessary information to assess the sustainability of food products. Consumers in this study said that food retailers and producers must take more responsibility for providing public information and awareness campaigns. Read
Image Journal articles Impacts of the EAT-Lancet diet on European farming This paper explores how the agricultural sector in the European Union (EU) might be affected by partial shifts in European consumers’ diets towards the EAT-Lancet reference diet. The impacts vary by sector, with the production of animal-sourced foods likely to fall and production of fruit and vegetables likely to increase. Overall, agricultural income is projected to rise as a result of the dietary shifts. Read
Image Reports Four Food Standards Agency reports on food choice The UK’s Food Standards Agency has published four reports reviewing the evidence on factors that influence food consumption behaviours. They cover interventions to reduce salt, fat and sugar consumption; public views of and influences on meat and dairy consumption; and the psychologies of food choice. Read
Image Essay Feeding the Future: What do modern Brits actually eat? Contribute to important new research Dr Keren Papier is a Senior Nutritional Epidemiologist working in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU), based in the Oxford Department of Population Health, at the University of Oxford. Her research at the CEU includes investigating diet and disease associations using large-scale cohort data (including the Million Women Study, EPIC-Oxford and the UK Biobank). She is also the principal investigator for the Feeding the Future Study (or FEED). Read
Image Reports 2021 Peas Please progress report This progress report from the UK’s Food Foundation shows that UK businesses have served an additional 636 million portions of vegetables over the past four years, as part of the Peas Please initiative. The report features several case studies, including Sainsbury’s, Birds Eye, Food Cardiff, Lidl and Healthy Start, and the Community Supported Agriculture Network UK. Read
Image Essay Loving some animals, eating others: Food preferences in childhood This blog post is written by Dr Luke McGuire, who is a lecturer at the University of Exeter Department of Psychology with interests in social & moral development across childhood, adolescence and emerging adulthood. Read
Image Journal articles Trends in UK meat consumption This study, published by the Wellcome Trust-funded Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) programme at Oxford, finds that average meat consumption per person in the UK has fallen from 103.7 g per day in 2008 to 86.3 g per day in 2019 (a 17% decrease). This encompasses a decrease in red meat consumption (13.7 g/day), a decrease in processed meat consumption (7.0 g/day) and an increase in white meat consumption (3.2 g/day). Read
