Archives for October 22, 2009

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Ethical food purchases set to rise

By Caroline Scott-Thomas

UK consumers are likely to become more interested in purchasing ethically produced foods as the country emerges from recession, according to research from IGD.

Special edition: Healthy chocolate

Regulation: the rules governing healthy chocolate

By Shane Starling

In the final part of our series on healthy chocolate, NutraIngredients scans the regulatory landscape to see how the movement towards healthy cocoa offerings is being affected by the rules in some of the lands they are proliferating in.

Consumer response to health claims varies by country: Study

By Jess Halliday

Italians are unswayed by healthy messages and images on foods, whereas the Finnish respond to medical pictures and British consumers are more likely to buy foods making even a weak health claim, indicates new research.