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Ben & Jerry’s boosts payments to cocoa famers
Ben & Jerry’s has partnered with Fairtrade to ensure that cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire earn higher prices for their beans.
This is part of the ice cream icon’s pledge to ramp up its living income approach for farmers.
Around 5,000 Fairtrade cocoa farmers in Ben & Jerry’s supply chain will receive approximately an additional $600,000 over the next year. This is on top of the annual Fairtrade Premium of around $970,000.
The extra money farmers will receive is part of Ben & Jerry’s wider efforts to support farmers towards closing the living income gap.
Ben & Jerry’s Global Values- Led Sourcing Manager Cheryl Pinto said: “We’re committed to working for economic justice through our ice cream, and now we’re making history by ramping up our commitment with the cocoa we buy. Starting with the cocoa in our chocolate ice cream mix, we’re working towards the Fairtrade Living Income Reference Price for cocoa farmers, and this is the beginning. We are exploring living incomes in our other global supply chains, too.”
UK almond consumers have better diets, research suggests
New research published in the European Journal of Nutrition finds that almond consumers in the UK have lower waist circumference, a lower BMI, and better diet quality, compared with people who do not consume almonds.
The study, which was funded by the Almond Board of California, used the most recent population data from the UK’s National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS rolling program, 2008-2017) to determine the higher diet quality scores of almond eaters.
The study investigated the association of almond snack consumption with risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) including BMI, total cholesterol, “bad” LDL-cholesterol, among other measures. Cross-sectional
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analysis was conducted using NDNS data from 6,802 adults who completed a four-day estimated food diary. Although average almond intake was low among UK adults who said they eat almonds (7.6%
of the population reported eating whole almonds and average intake was 5g/day), UK almond consumers reported higher diet quality scores compared to those who reported not consuming almonds.
The almond eaters had higher reported intakes of protein, total fat, monounsaturated, omega-3 and omega-6 fats, fiber, folate, vitamin C, vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and iron. Further, they had lower intakes of trans-fatty acids, total carbohydrate, sugar and sodium. This finding suggests that UK adults with healthier dietary patterns are more likely to include whole almonds. Researchers also found that UK almond consumers had lower BMI and waist circumference measurements. BMI was significantly lower for the whole almonds only group by .8 kg/m² and waist circumference was lower by 2.1cm. There were no differences between almond and non-almond with regard to other CVD risk factors.
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