Individuals and families

The United Nations believes the food industry has a vital role to play in helping enable healthier lives. At Nestlé we believe this too. We want to help shape a better and healthier world. This was how we started more than 150 years ago when our founder Henri Nestlé created an infant cereal that saved the life of a child.

Our work focuses on three areas and is supported by these commitments:

Supporting individuals and their families with tastier and healthier food choices

• Launch more nutritious foods and beverages, especially for mothers-to-be, new mothers and children*
• Further decrease sugars, sodium and saturated fat
• Increase vegetables, fibre-rich grains, pulses, nuts and seeds in our foods and beverages
• Address undernutrition through micronutrient fortification
• Simplify our ingredients list and remove artificial colours

Inspiring people to lead healthier lives

• Support breastfeeding and protect it by continuing to implement an industry-leading policy to market breast-milk substitutes responsibly*
• Empower parents, caregivers and teachers to foster healthy behaviours in children*
• Market to children only choices that help them achieve a nutritious diet*
• Inspire people to choose water to lead healthier lives
• Leverage our marketing efforts to promote healthy cooking, eating and lifestyles
• Apply and explain nutrition information on packs, at point of sale and online
• Offer guidance on portions for our products*
• Partner for promoting healthy food environments

Building, sharing and applying nutrition knowledge

• Build and share nutrition knowledge from the first 1000 days through to healthy ageing*
• Build biomedical science leading to health-promoting products, personalised nutrition and digital solutions

^* Indicates commitments aimed at infants and children

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