Customers increasingly care about their health
Our customers tell us that health is important and want us to make healthier eating easier for them and their families. We are committed to helping our customers do more of the healthy things they're already doing and supporting our customers to make healthier choices no matter where they are on their health journey.
Inspiring healthy choices for a better future
Woolworths is determined to help kids eat healthier with our Fresh Food Kids program. Our ambition is to make it fun and easy for kids to eat fruit and vegetables by empowering them with educational and hands-on activities. That’s why we:
Reducing prices on healthier products
We know that budget is a barrier to healthy eating for more than one third of Australians, so we’re helping to make healthier choices more affordable by offering hundreds of healthier products on low prices nationally. Some of the new healthier for you products added to the prices dropped program include core foods or foods with 4 or more Health Stars.
Woolworths defines items as ‘healthier’ based on whether it's a core food as laid out by the Australian Dietary Guidelines or has a health star rating of 4 or above.
Imperfect Produce
Having access to affordable fresh fruit and vegetables is a priority for our customers. Our Woolworths Odd Bunch range of imperfect fruit and vegetables not only helps customers save money, it also helps minimise food waste. This has been a highly successful program, and Woolworths has sold more than 204,000 tonnes of the Odd Bunch range since 2015 - a testament to the support of customers looking for affordable, but funky looking fruit and vegetables.
Signposting healthier options
To help our customers find healthier choices in store we have:
Improving the nutrition of Woolworths Food Range
We are committed to providing clear and transparent labelling, not using additives our customers have asked us to remove, and improving the nutritional profile of products to make healthier choices easier. All Woolworths food range now have no artificial colours and flavours or added MSG.
Stakeholder engagement
Woolworths is part of the Government’s Healthy Food Partnership Executive Committee, which aims to improve the dietary habits of Australians.
Growing a good food team culture
We now employ five accredited nutritionists across Australia and New Zealand to implement our health guidelines and commitments. To embed our health strategy in 2018 Australia established a cross-functional health working group supported by our Executive Committee with representatives from buying, marketing, strategy and nutrition.
Australia's healthiest Own Brands
In August 2020, the George Institute for Global health found that Woolworths' Own Brands were the healthiest of any major Australian supermarket based on the mean Health Star Ratings compared to Coles, Aldi and IGA.
We are determined to lead the way when it comes to helping our customers make healthier choices, with these initiatives representing the start of our journey in this area.