Food & Nutrition

Providing nutritious meals to those in need

We have a global commitment to donate 25 million meals to people in need by 2025 and have already exceeded it by donating more than 33 million meals to communities around the world. We aren’t stopping there as we continue to build strategic partnerships with local organizations to help us get food to the people who need it the most.

North America

We donated over 5.5 million healthy meals in North America in 2022. In the U.S., our Ben's Original™ "Be an After School Hero" program supports No Kid Hungry®, a national campaign to end childhood hunger in America. The program also partners with Feeding Canada to support Canadians facing food insecurity. Additionally, we worked closely with key national and local partnerships including Feeding America, Kroeger, Molina Healthcare, Delta Group, Mississippi Food Network, the Washington County Food Access Improvement Fund, Food Corps and the Greenville College Access and Attainment Network. Since 2006, our Seeds of Change 1% Fund has granted $3 million to gardening programs and FoodCorps for food education, and over the last two years we have supported planting 200,000 seeds and reached 260,000 students.

Europe

In Europe, we donated over 3 million healthy meals in 2022 through our partnerships with Les Resto Du Coeur in France, Tafel in Germany, and Fareshare and Hisfood in the U.K. In the U.K., we have partnered with the Trussell Trust for four years as we Stand Against Hunger and support their network of food banks by using our DOLMIO® and Ben’s Original™ brands to raise awareness of the issue, the work that the Trussell Trust do, and to encourage everyone to get involved.

Australia

In Australia, we donated 1.8 million healthy meals through our partners including Foodbank, Second Bite and Coast Shelter in 2022. We also continue to deliver our Foodbank Collaborative Supply Program with Foodbank Australia, working with our suppliers who donate their products and services, to better respond to the increasing demand for food relief by providing a steady, planned supply of food products. We are continuing this program for a third year in 2023, which will help us to deliver on our pledge of 3 million healthy meals by the end of the year.

South Africa

In South Africa, our Royco® brand has been in partnership with the Shoprite Mobile Soup Kitchen initiative for the past 15 years to provide nourishing meals to many vulnerable communities across South Africa. We have been contributing to the Soup Kitchens since 2007, when we started supplying products to the partnership. Through the Mobile Soup Kitchens, more than 4.6 million cups of vitamin-enriched soup were served in 2022.