FMCG Innovations and Trends by Sophia Nadur

Tg Green Teas do Lunch! Join us at stand F317. Lunch! the UK’s leading annual trade show for the food-to-go industry is on at the Business Design Centre in London 24-25 September If you are a  café ,  sandwich bar ,  contract caterer ,  wholesaler ,  multiple buyer  or  deli , then  Lunch!  is your most important date of the year. There really is no substitute for doing business face to face and at  Lunch!  you will be able to meet  over 350 suppliers  in the food & drink industry, from the largest manufacturers to the small, innovative start-up producers........including  Tg Green Teas ! Find us on  stand number  F317. What's so special about Tg and why is it right for Lunch! What makes Tg different from other iced teas and / or new-to-market drinks that tout "healthy" credentials?   Iced Tg  is a deliciously natural energy infusion using real brewed tea - not extract like most other iced teas - and without added tea flavours. Iced Tg is blended with in

Jamie Oliver's #Sugarrush a game changer? Famed restauranteur and foodie  Jamie Oliver  ramped up the anti-sugar campaign with a stomach churning  TV programme  showing the effects of sugar over-consumption on kids' teeth and diabetic folks' health (Channel 4 on 3/Sept ), a  public petition  that has attracted nearly 150,000 signatures (sign up  here ), and a stirring performance at a government health committee meeting on 19/Oct.  His insights and actions  may be the  game changer  Action on Sugar and other lobby groups have been looking for in their well meaning efforts to tackle the growing obesity problem here in Britain. I support wholeheartedly  Jamie Oliver 's challenge to government to add a  20p/litre tax on soft drinks  and make  front-of-pack nutritional labelling mandatory  in an effort to help us reduce our daily  #sugarrush . In my view, a sugar tax could work if implemented in a similar way as a "plastic bag"  tax i.e. at the cashier&#