The majority of 4- to 10-year-olds consume around 22kg of sugar a year – far above the recommended amount. Change4Life plans to to tackle this with the release of a free tracking app named Sugar Smart, which is intended to help parents monitor their kids' sugar intake.

We’ve long been drinking coffee by the capsule, but what if we could do the same with juice? Start-up Juicero has raised $120 million to do just that – deliver the freshest juices to home-service dispensers to bring juicers better quality than is available in the shops. How big could it be?

The top-selling yoghurt flavours in the US are predictably strawberry, blueberry and vanilla. Bucking the trend is Blue Hill with its ‘gourmet savory yoghurts'. Available in carrot, tomato and beetroot flavours, they are stocked in 900 stores. What's getting Americans swapping sweet for savoury?

Gone are the days when a bag of frozen fruit was seen as the poor man’s alternative to a fresh punnet of juicy strawberries. Today America has a much bigger appetite for frozen fruit, and suppliers have the smoothie craze to thank for it.