The worlds largest food company, Nestle, has acknowledged that more than 60% of its mainstream food and drinks products do not meet a ‘recognised definition of health’ and that ‘some of our categories and products will never be healthy no matter how much we renovate’, the Financial Times reported.
A presentation circulated among the top executives this year, seen by the Financial Times, said only 37% of Nestle’s food and beverages by revenues, excluding products such as pet food and specialised medical nutrition, achieve a rating above 3.5 under Australia’s health star rating system.
This system scores food out of five stars and is used in research by international groups such as the Access to Nutrition Foundation.
As per the report, Nestle, the maker of KitKat, Maggi, and Nescafe, describes the 3.5-star threshold as a ‘recognised definition of health’.
The report said within its overall food and drink portfolio, about 70% of Nestle’s food products failed to…