Health and Hospitality: When Does Food Stop Being Food? (Thomasina Miers)

Radical with Gabriel Gatehouse · Feb 26, 2026 · 51m

The UK is one of the world’s largest consumers of ultra-processed foods, so Wahaca restaurants founder Thomasina Miers thinks the government should cut the taxes of businesses that serve healthy alternatives.

In fact, she challenges the idea that ultra‑processed products should be called ‘food’ at all.

From social canteens that teach people to cook simple meals to zero percent business rates for greengrocers, the MasterChef winner tells Amol how she would reform Britain’s food system.

And she warns that the hospitality sector is facing a “bloodbath” after Chancellor Rachel Reeves increased…