Swiss food multinational Nestle has for the first time disclosed data showing the nutritional value of its foods, following stewardship pressure from ShareAction.
According to non-financial statement covering 2025, Nestle’s actions to support products contributing to nutritional diets included enhancing into new nutritional solutions, plus reformulating key products to improve their nutritional value, and committing to greater reporting transparency.
Last year, Nestle also launched high-protein Milo Pro, intended to energise young adults and address specific nutritional gaps identified in regional research. Following the firm’s latest financial results, chief executive Philipp Navratil also confirmed plans for Nestle to sell its global ice cream business.
Advocacy group ShareAction, as part of the Long Term Investors In Peoples Health initiative which it leads, has been lobbying for firms to provide such healthiness reports within its annual statements.
On the recent development by Nestle, a statement from ShareAction says: “While there is still progress to be made in shifting the company’s overall sales toward healthier products, it is encouraging to see the world’s largest food and beverage company take this step.
“Greater transparency on the health profile of sales is essential to drive accountability and long-term success – and it’s positive to see Nestlé follow through on its commitment to improve disclosure.”
In 2025, Nestle claimed to offer 135.4 billion servings of affordable nutrition with micronutrient fortification, and provided accredited nutrition education on early childhood to over 15 000 healthcare professionals in 85 countries.
However, the firm also faced difficulties in the year, such as its largest ever product recall, concerning tainted baby formula.
Around 6.1% of Nestle’s greenhouse reductions in 2025 came from changes to portfolio, especially recipe reformulation. This fall was less than initially expected, with Nestle ascribing this to constraints such as retaining nutritional values of products, consumer tastes, and texture and manufacturing processes.
Independent assurance on the report was carried out by EY, which measured key performance indicators across a range of ESG metrics.