Healthier food grows more expensive at twice the rate of unhealthy options

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Food Foundation's annual Broken Plate report reveals that healthier options, lower in fat, salt, and sugar, now cost more than double per calorie compared to less healthy alternatives. Anna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation, said, “The Broken Plate report sadly shows that our food system is failing to provide large swathes of the population with the basic nutrition needed for them to stay healthy and thrive. We hope that this will be seized as an opportunity to tackle these inequalities through cross departmental working, with acknowledgment that key changes to the food system can help to achieve Labour’s missions, from economic growth, to breaking down barriers to opportunity to relieving pressure on the NHS.” Henry Dimbleby, the former government food tsar and author of the last National Food Strategy, said: “This report couldn’t come at a more critical moment. If we can reshape the food environment, I feel confident we can improve people’s experience so that everyone – whatever their circumstances – can get the physical and mental nourishment that comes from good food.” Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs Daniel Zeichner said: “The Food Foundation’s Broken Plate report highlights important issues with the UK’s food system, with unhealthy diets driving obesity levels.