Majority in UK want new tax on makers of ultra-processed and junk food
Exclusive: Poll findings prompt calls for ministers to impose sugar tax-style levy on companies to combat obesity
July 2024
Eating processed red meat could increase risk of dementia, study finds
The godfather of competitive eating on secrets, success and physical stress: ‘I am always close to danger or death’
June 2024
Australians choosing KFC over restaurant dining as cost of living bites
The largest KFC franchisee in Australia, Collins Foods, has defied expectations with a 6.6% lift in revenue
Some takeaway meals contain more calories than daily limit, GB study finds
Cafes, fast-food outlets, restaurants, bakeries, pubs and supermarkets accused of fuelling the obesity crisis
Full Story
Does fast food have a supersized influence over Australian media? – Full Story podcast
The man who warned us about UPFs: Michael Pollan on his 25-year fight with the food industry
Big Mac v Supermac’s: McDonald’s loses EU trademark fight
May 2024
Morgan Spurlock obituary
In the early hours of a motorway service station, I learned that the 24-hour city is over
Adrian Chiles
£4 Dominos and £5 KFC: health fears as fast food lunch becomes ‘workplace appropriate’
Experience
Experience: I’ve eaten pizza every day for six years
April 2024
Healthier ready-to-eat meals would have ‘huge’ EU climate benefits – report
‘Eat the future, pay with your face’: my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint
March 2024
Why I quit
Buried under chicken wings and with cholesterol soaring, I knew I’d had my fill of reviewing restaurants
Corin Hirsch
‘Wait,’ people would say. ‘You get paid to eat?’ Yes, and eating out five times a day was joyful – for a while, at least, says journalist Corin Hirsch
Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class
Some complain that pricey sourdough is elitist and pretentious. Others lambast cheap sliced white as unhealthy and unsustainable. How did our most basic foodstuff become a source of conflict and division?
Pass notes
Surge pricing: is your favourite restaurant about to start charging you more at peak times?
Unhealthiest UK restaurants and takeaways ‘more likely to be found in deprived areas’
Four in five billboard ads in England and Wales in poorer areas
February 2024
How much is that Frosty? Wendy’s to trial Uber-like surge pricing
Fast-food chain’s CEO announced the plan – which will utilize ‘AI-enabled menu changes’ and suggestive selling – in an earnings call