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We have quickly become familiar with the grim diet of disease, closures and shortages that currently fill our news feeds.

Two-thirds (66%) of consumers have already changed or are considering making changes to be healthier and make more sustainable choices.  

The average Brit currently throws away 34kg of plastic packaging ever year, which is the equivalent weight of 5,000 pencils. 

The current target is to reduce the average salt intake for adults to six grams a day from an average of over eights grams per day.

The University of Nottingham’s division of food, nutrition and dietetics carried out a survey on 858 participants using a traffic light labelling system (TLL) to select healthy foods. 

According to Culinary Medicine UK our food choices have overtaken smoking as the leading preventable risk factor for diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. 

The study authored by Tammy Tong, showed citrus fruits, hard fruits (such as apples and pears), as well as root vegetables caused an inverse association of risk for the most common stroke, ischaemi

According to Veg Power UK 80% of UK children are not eating enough vegetables so they are running a campaign called #EatThemToDefeatThem to tackle this issue.