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Food tracking : Does using an app make you healthier ?
Key takeaway
Yuka app with 85M users drives consumer demand for healthier food, pressuring UK food SMEs to reformulate or risk losing shelf space.
- Step 1Yuka's 85M user base creates a consumer preference shift toward higher-scoring products (Nutri-Score A/B).
- Step 2Supermarkets in the UK (Tesco, Sainsbury's) respond by delisting low-scoring products and promoting high-scoring alternatives, replicating French retail behaviour.
- Step 3UK food SMEs face reformulation costs (ingredient substitution, relabelling) and margin compression as they invest to retain shelf space.
- Step 4Long-term, SMEs that fail to adapt lose distribution and revenue, while those that reformulate may gain market share but at lower margins.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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