All Suppliers

 

Plan for Better Health Targets

Our Plan for Better Targets are based on our classification of the healthiness of products, for more information see our overview of the targets and interactive decision trees which can be used to define the health status of products.

• Health Criteria & Decision Tree
• Food Group Hierarchy
• Portion Control Criteria
• Relevant Nutrition Claims by Category

Extra Resources 

ESG/ Health:

• ‘What is a Sustainable diet’ - FCRN discussion paper
• Health from IGD - Articles and Insights from ‘IGD Health’
• An FOA publication on Food System & Healthy Diet Transformation
• Part One of the two-part National Food Strategy
• British Nutrition Foundation survey revealing 62% of Britons have altered their diet to get healthier in the past year
• The Eatwell Guide - a policy tool used to define the UK governments recommendations on eating healthily

Disclosure/ Benchmarking:

• Sainsbury’s Healthy & Sustinable Diets Approach
• Sainsbury's Helping Everyone Eat Better
• Access to Nutrition Initiative Report on Supermarket ‘Healthy Diet’ performance

 

Reformulate products, in line with Public Health England’s reformulation priorities.

In line with Public Health England’s reformulation priorities, ‘Healthy diets’ is an area of increasing legislation; reformulating products behind Public Heath’s reformulation priorities will drive commercial and sustainable success.

Sainsbury’s has experience of running reformulation programs, without compromising quality or taste. 93% of our own brand products meet the Public Health England maximum calorie per portion target, and we’ve reduced sugar content in the top 5 sugar contributing categories by over 20% since 2015. Whilst we are proud of our performance, upcoming legislation as well as health and sustainability priorities means we will continue to develop and deliver healthy and sustainable diets for all.

Further Support

Calorie targets

• Government Calorie Reduction Guidelines Technical Report

Sugar reformulation targets

• Government Sugar Reduction: Achieving the 20% Report
• Government Fermented Yogurt Drinks Supplementary Report to Sugar Reduction Guidelines

Salt targets

• Government Salt Reduction Targets for 2024 Report

 

Innovate

To bring heathy choices, including plant rich options to the market. The IGD Reformulation Guide is a powerful tool-kit which continues to support Sainsbury’s reformulate our own brand range, without compromising quality or taste; we recommend suppliers align behind the IGD Health framework.

Further Support

• IGD Reformulation Guide
• Healthy Eating Tools - IGD ‘Product Development’ Toolkit
• Sustainable Eating: Nutrition Bulletin
• Reformulation case studies

 

Prepare for HFSS legislation

‘High Fat, Salt and Sugar’ is both a legislative and health priority. HFSS legislation goes live in October 2022.

 

To help with our preparations, we are requesting suppliers to certain product categories provide us with the information needed to assess whether a product is impacted by the placement and promotional regulations. The information includes the following:

• the HFSS score for the product;
• the Legislative category the product falls into; and
• whether the product is classified as a ‘Food’ or ‘Drink’.

We will use two approaches to collect this information based on if you supply Branded or Own Brand products. These are as follows:

For Branded Suppliers

• We will use the GS1 UK productDNA portal to source the full set of 20 HFSS data attributes from you, including those listed above.
• If you are an existing productDNA subscriber, then the HFSS attributes will be available for population and publication through the HFSS channel from 1^st February.
• If you are not already registered on the productDNA portal, you will need to register; this link will take you to the portal 
• If you don’t know whether you are a productDNA subscriber, you can contact GS1 UK as described here:  https://www.gs1uk.org/contact-us
• From 1^st February the GS1 UK productDNA portal will be open for you to submit the HFSS data for your products.

For Own Brand Suppliers

• We have sent you an Excel template to complete with the information requested, for the products you supply; we will provide guidance on how to complete the template.

If you have any queries regarding HFSS please contact HFSS.Queries@sainsburys.co.uk

Further Support

• UK Govt Consultation
• Department of Health Nutrient Profiling Technical Guide
• Sellex HFSS Overview
• BRC HFSS guidance - To understand what products are in and out of scope. Please note, the BRC guidance is a live document which will be periodically reviewed. Please continue to check the BRC Community Hub link - Community Hub (brc.org.uk) to ensure you are using the most updated version.
• Nutrient profiling | The Food & Drink Federation (fdf.org.uk)  - Understand how to calculate the HFSS score of a product

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