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Dolmio and Uncle Ben's advise customers to buy less!

Geoff Riley

15th April 2016

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Pasta joke or an extraordinary act of corporate social responsibility? Dolmio and Uncle Ben's - two of the world's biggest food brands (both under the ownership of Mars) - has issued a warning to consumers to limit consumption of their cooking sauces for pasta to just once-a-week because high fat/salt/sugar. Dolmio regularly comes top of surveys asking consumers to rank their favourite sauces.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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