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A new nutrient profiling model will require another wave of product reformulation, it says, involving expensive efforts to reduce levels of sugar and salt.
The food industry is wrong on this one, says Anna Taylor of the charity, the Food Foundation.
Back at the Coney Hill Food Hub, food quality is also on the mind of its founder, Tanya Dando.
You've mentioned about chicken nuggets.
Do people find the processed food cheaper, easier to buy?
Anna Taylor of the Food Foundation.
So with forecasts of higher food prices, what do you want to see?
Meanwhile, on the food industry's wish list, along with its calls for a rethink on regulations, are demands for a change in the way it's viewed as an energy user.
Some businesses, such as chemical companies, are already recognised as energy-intensive industries.
For them to remain competitive, they receive targeted benefits and are exempt from a levy for so-called non-commodity costs, such as the renewables obligation.
The food industry should be treated the same way, says Andrew Opie of the BRC.
When we put all of these points to the Treasury, they told us... We know people are paying more because of the war in the Middle East.
Let's zoom out again from the UK's experience of food price inflation and think more globally.
Around the world, because of the war in the Middle East, along with other conflicts, President Trump's changes to trade rules and climate change, even more severe inflationary pressures are being felt.
Professor Jennifer Clapp, who we heard from earlier, has spent years looking at the deeper, less obvious systems and structures that contribute to higher prices.
In her latest book, Titans of Industrial Agriculture, How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector, she looks at the big four inputs into our food.
Machinery, seeds, pesticides, and part of the story we've already touched on, fertilisers.
This type of concentration of power in agricultural inputs can impact prices, argues Professor Clapp, particularly during periods of crisis and chaos in the food system, such as at the start of the war in Ukraine.
So what if anything can be done?
Well, prompted by the arrival of the Trump administration and changes to global trade, the impact of conflicts and climate change, Professor Clapp