Around 80% of Americans eat fast food at least once a month. Hoping to get them swapping burgers for quinoa, Eatsa offers healthy lunches via a fully automated service. The brand boasts a data-led approach to making tasty and nutritious meals, but can it end a national obsession with junk food?

With obesity at the forefront of many consumers’ minds, they are looking for healthier snacking options. In response, snack and beverage brands are implementing new strategies, including reducing portion sizes, ‘premiumising’ their products and using clearer labelling.

Organic snack brand Hippeas is looking to replace the guilty mid-afternoon treat with something to be proud of. Its flavoured chickpea puffs are targeted towards the ‘modern hippie’ – Gen Yers obsessed with health and wellbeing – but how is it standing out in the crowded health food market?

In her 2016 bookFirst Bite, food writer Bee Wilson drew on research from food psychologists and neuroscientists to reveal how people’s food habits are shaped. Speaking with Canvas8, she explains the influence of family, memory, gender and love on the things we eat as children and adults.