For every $10 spent on these companies’ products in 2020, only $1.10 was spent on healthier products. The methods presented in this paper provide an objective and transparent means to assess companies’ product portfolios and sales. Organizations in the global health and nutrition community could also consider setting a threshold for the proportion of unhealthy sales food and beverage companies must meet in order to engage with them. Including additional countries in the future would give further insight into how leading multinational companies’ sales vary geographically. There was geographical variation, with 97% of sales data matched with nutrition composition data in Brazil, compared to just 62% in China.

Source: The Guardian December 02, 2023 02:45 UTC