Our highest priorities
As one of the largest food businesses, we create and market food enjoyed by millions of people around the world every day.
That means we can make a big impact on people’s health - a responsibility that we take very seriously.
But then health and nutrition have always been among our highest priorities. Even back in the early 20th Century, the companies that founded Unilever were among the first to add vitamins to margarine to make it more nutritious. We were also the first to identify that certain foods could help lower cholesterol. And today cutting edge research helps us constantly learn more about health and nutrition - expertise that we use to create nutritious foods that suit today’s tastes and lifestyles.
Growing insight
In fact our expertise in this field is world-renowned. Combined with our production capabilities and the skills of our marketing teams, it puts us in a unique position to provide foods that make healthy eating easy, convenient - and delicious. And our focus on vitality – helping people look good, feel good and get more out of life – keeps health and nutrition at the very heart of our business.
Our knowledge of health and nutrition grows daily and as new research about the health properties of individual ingredients comes to light, we change our product formulations. Many of our brands also have initiatives looking at how we can reduce ingredients like saturated fats, sugar and salt.
But we don’t just create and market foods. We also help raise awareness about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle – not just diet – through our partnerships and collaborations with healthcare professionals and leading global health bodies like UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
A passion for vitality, health and nutrition are at the heart of Unilever and we’ll continue to work hard to develop new products that make healthy eating enjoyable, convenient and affordable for people everywhere.
An internal communications programme keeps everyone in our global Foods business up to date with the key issues through entertaining, interactive cartoons. These are packed with facts on issues like health and nutrition and how consumers struggle to fit healthy eating into busy lifestyles. We also use similar tools to bring Unilever Food and Beverage Marketing Principles to life.
