health and nutrition: from our family to yours
Our goal is to provide people with convenient, nutritious food that – when combined with exercise and activity – can help them live healthier lives. We believe that a variety of convenient foods plays an important role in peoples’ diets, providing nutritious, tasty choices at a reasonable cost. A healthy product portfolio is a fundamental part of our business strategy, and we continue to improve the health profile of our products.
our strategies
Our strategies regarding the nutritional content of our products that are delivered to our customers relates to our mission, nourishing lives by making them:
risks to our stakeholders
The health of our customers is central to our mission of Nourishing Lives. As a food producer and supplier, we recognize that the food we provide, and its nutritional value and safety, directly impacts the development of future generations. Developing healthy alternatives is an exciting area for General Mills and creates opportunities for new ways to connect food, exercise, and lifestyle together for our customers. This strategy also promotes our exploration of alternative ways to create products using different, more sustainable materials. Although there are opportunities, we still may face challenges in delivering the highest nutritionally valuable options. These challenges include:
current key performance measures
suggested key performance measures
Types of metrics used to signal nutritional value, healthiness, and safety of our products:
- Health improvements in key nutrition facts: % increase (decrease) in favorable (unfavorable) inputs in product over time
- Growth of healthy portfolio: % increase in healthy product offerings
- Integrity of product: higher frequency of supplier audits
- Quality improvement: number of quality control incidents over time
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