Newsweek: Most Food Sold by Biggest Companies Is Unhealthy

Two-thirds of the products sold by the 30 biggest food companies in the world are unhealthy, according to a report published by the Access to Nutrition Foundation (ATNi) on Thursday.

“If you go to your supermarket, on average, nearly 70 percent of products you’ll be looking at will be unhealthy, no matter what the labeling says, no matter what the advertising says,” Philip Eisenhart, ATNi media lead, told Newsweek.

Greg Garrett, ATNi executive director, told Newsweek that there had been marginal improvements—with 34 percent of sales coming from healthy foods this year, rather than 27 percent, as was the case in 2021.

“But that’s nowhere near even half,” he said. “If we’re going to get to 50 percent by 2030, things have to move much faster.”

“It’s still a bleak picture,” said Eisenhart. “And on top of that, not one of these companies is willing to stop marketing those unhealthy products to children.”