Nutrition news and trends

Kroger Health to Add Medically Tailored Meals for Chronic Conditions
Healthcare // September 15, 2023

Kroger Health, the healthcare division of The Kroger Co., has partnered with Performance Kitchen to offer medically tailored meals (MTMs). This partnership marks the first time that Kroger Health will be providing evidence-based, registered dietitian approved meals that meet the specific needs of people with various health conditions...

Grocery Stores Compete to Capture Consumer’s Healthy Food Spend
Delivery // September 28, 2022

As food and beverage businesses announce their participation in the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Wednesday (Sept. 28), many are using the opportunity to unveil not only environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) initiatives, as one might expect, but also features to...

How One Startup Aims To Become The Blue Apron Of Baby Food
Retail // March 19, 2020

Square Baby has an innovative business model, but according to CEO Katie Thomson, it’s all about the ingredients. When the company announced its new line of allergen-introduction products last week, the standard pithy executive quotes were absent. What replaced them was a detailed list of...

Creating The Healthy Junk Food Category
Retail // February 12, 2020

There is really no way to interpret a pork rind – the fried skin of a pig – as a healthy snack. Per serving, which is a single unit, a pork rind has 154 calories, 515 milligrams of sodium, 27 milligrams of cholesterol and 9...

Interviews & Exclusives
Propel CEO Sees App As Aid to Low-Income Consumers, Beyond The Grocer’s Aisles

May 04, 2018
An app designed to make life easier for food stamp recipients is expanding the commerce-related services it offers to low-income Americans, but a new challenge related to data could hamper the ability of Propel, the company that operates the app, to gather the data upon which it depends. New features being rolled out include grocery […]

Quick Reads
Kroger Continues Nutritional Push With Soda Health Partnership

December 07, 2023
Kroger has teamed with Soda Health to give consumers greater access to pharmacy and nutrition services. The companies’ “Smart Benefits” partnership combines Kroger Health’s services with Soda Health’s “&more” platform and is open to participating Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and employer benefits program recipients, per a Thursday (Dec. 7) press release. “The Smart Benefits program within Soda Health’s &more platform […]

Kroger Health to Add Medically Tailored Meals for Chronic Conditions

September 15, 2023
Kroger Health, the healthcare division of The Kroger Co., has partnered with Performance Kitchen to offer medically tailored meals (MTMs). This partnership marks the first time that Kroger Health will be providing evidence-based,...

Yumi Raises $8M To Grow Fresh Baby Food Business

December 10, 2019
A baby food delivery startup named Yumi has raised $8 million in a funding round backed by some of the most notable names in Silicon Valley, according to a report....

Kimbal Musk Debuts Fast Casual Restaurants

February 02, 2017
The desire to eat healthy regularly is often outweighed by the proximity to quick and inexpensive food options. Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother, has a deep understanding of this desire, which is why...