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The Broken Plate 2025 report highlights the UK’s pressing food system challenges, emphasizing rising food insecurity, the unaffordability of healthy diets, and worsening public health. It attributes these issues to systemic failures in food policy, exacerbated by climate change and economic instability. The report underscores stark inequalities, with deprived communities disproportionately affected by obesity, diabetes, and poor nutrition. It also critiques the aggressive marketing and promotion of unhealthy foods while healthier options remain expensive and inaccessible. Despite political interest in reform, the report stresses the need for bold, systemic changes, including fair wages for food workers, local food production initiatives, sustainable farming incentives, and stronger regulation of unhealthy food marketing. By assessing key food environment metrics—such as advertising spending, sugar content in children’s food, and food affordability—it provides a baseline for future progress. The report calls for a transformative approach to ensure an equitable, nutritious, and sustainable food system that benefits both public health and the environment
