One Billion More Healthy Meals
2018 Progress Report

JULY 2018

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One Billion
More Healthy
Meals Sharedon Dinner Tables
around the WorldIn 2016, we announced our Ambition to deliver One
Billion More Healthy Meals Shared on Dinner Tables
around the World by 2021. Through this Ambition we willgrow our business by providing consumers with healthier,convenient, and tasty foods, inspiring healthy dinnertime
around the world and supporting the wellbeing of ourown Associates. This Ambition is inspired by Mars Food’s
Purpose – Better Food Today. A Better World Tomorrow.
Our Purpose is at the heart of the work our Associates doevery day to bring the world to the dinner table.
We are pleased to share the progress we have made overthe past year:• We’ve delivered an additional 300 million
healthy meals, bringing our total to 400 million
more healthy meals since we launched our
Ambition in 2016 as defined by World HealthOrganization (WHO) nutrition recommendations.
• Today, 72% of our products (by sales volume) meet
WHO recommendations for calories, added sugar,
sodium, and fats, as incorporated into the Mars
Food Nutrition Criteria. And, we’re well on our way
to ensuring close to 95% of our portfolio meetsthese targets by 2021.
• We’ve reduced sodium by an average of 8%
across our global portfolio – steady progress
toward our goal to reduce sodium by 20%.
• We’re providing more transparency to ourconsumers about what’s in the foods they eat
and how to fit them into a balanced weekly diet.
Almost all of our brands provide nutrition
information online, and we’re updating our onpack recipe suggestions to help consumers craft
healthy meals with our products.

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• Our leading brands continue to launch campaigns
to inspire family cooking and meal sharing aroundthe world. Mars Food Associates are doing theirpart, too, by volunteering their time to teach kids thebasics of nutrition and cooking, giving them
important skills they can use to cook healthy meals
at home with their families.
• And we’re continuing to invest in the health andwellbeing of our Mars Food Associates. Today, all of
our sites offer nutrition education and healthy
canteen meals, and we’ve progressed in offering
more kitchen and fitness facility access to
our Associates.
In the pages that follow, you’ll find additional details about
these efforts and more. We’re inspired by the progress
we’ve made to date, but we know there is some hard work
ahead. We’ve set ambitious targets for ourselves, and insome areas the work will be challenging. But a meaningful
Health and Wellbeing Ambition should be stretching, andwe are dedicated to playing our part to help consumers
make healthier meal choices.
Food is personal for all of us, it supports our wellbeing andbrings us together with loved ones. And families around theworld are struggling to eat better, to find time to cook at
home, and sit down over a meal. Mars Food is driven by our
Purpose to help families enjoy dinnertime, in all the ways it
can nourish us. That is the essence of this Ambition and oursteadfast commitment to it.

Fiona Dawson
Global President, Mars Food,
Drinks and Multisales

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MakingOur Products
Healthier
72% of our global portfolio

One Billion More Healthy Meals Shared on Dinner Tables around the WorldOur Global Health & Wellbeing Ambition has a simple objective – deliver One Billion More Healthy Meals Sharedon Dinner Tables Around the World by 2021. To guide us in this ambitious journey, we developed the Mars Food
Nutrition Criteria, setting for ourselves challenging, industry-leading product reformulation targets based on World
Health Organization (WHO) nutrition recommendations. By 2021, we aim for the bulk of our portfolio to meet thesenutrition recommendations such that these foods can be enjoyed ‘any day’ on dinner tables around the world.
We’re proud to report that today 72% of our portfolio (by sales volume) meets these targets for calories, added sugar,
sodium, and fats – up from 65% last year. In 2017, we delivered 300 million more healthy meals through a combinationof reformulation and growth – bringing our total to date to 400 million more healthy meals.

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(by sales volume) now meets WHO
nutrition recommendations forcalories, sodium, added sugar, fat,and saturated fat content.

Mars Food Nutrition Criteria
Daily Reference Values:
Mars Food
Targets:

WHO
Targets:

Energy2000 kcal

2000 kcal

Added Sugars

50 g

50 g

Fat

67 g

67 g

Saturated Fat

22 g

22 g

Trans-fatty Acids

2.2 g

2.2 g

Sodium2000 mg2000 mg

Whole Grains

48 g

n/a

Fruits/Vegetables 400 g

n/aLegumesn/a40 g

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Reducing added sugar

Reducing sodium

We use WHO guidance, incorporated into the Mars Food Nutrition Criteria
according to meal type, as our target to reduce added sugar. WHO recommends
that individuals consume not more than 10% of their daily calories from addedsugar. We aim for the bulk of our portfolio to be consistent with this guidanceby 2021, with the exception of our more indulgent dinnertime foods that retain
their sweetness to maintain the authentic nature of the recipe.

We’ve set a very high bar for our business to
reduce sodium across our global portfolio.
We committed to reduce sodium by anaverage of 20% by 2021, which will bring
the bulk of our products in line with the
WHO recommendation that individuals
consume not more than 2000 mg/day.
These reductions are particularly challenging
because they are in addition to the sodium
reductions we made between 2007 and 2012,
when we reduced sodium by an average of 25%. What’smore, we’ve been using the strictest sodium intake recommendation
globally – WHO’s limit of 2000 mg/day – as our target, rather than the higher
intake recommendations that have been issued by the US Food and Drug
Administration and other public health authorities globally.

We are pleased that 96% of our dinnertime food portfolio already meets thistarget, and we are on track to meet our commitment, with only five products
left to reformulate. Our work so far has achieved the necessary added sugar
reductions in some of our UNCLE BEN’S® sauces. We also developed ‘No Added
Sugar’ DOLMIO® pasta sauces that hit shelves in the UK last year.

96%

of our portfolio meets WHO
recommendations
on added sugar.

We are proud that, since 2015, we have reduced sodium by an average of 8%
across our global portfolio, including in some UNCLE BEN’S® flavored rices in both
dry and ready to heat formats. The remaining sodium reductions we need to maketo meet our commitment will not be easy. Consumers – particularly those in the
United States – are accustomed to and prefer higher sodium foods.
While these challenges are real, we are still committed to identifying how we
can further reduce sodium without compromising the quality or taste consumers
expect from our products, and our hard work will continue in the coming years
to further reduce sodium.

We have reduced sodium by an average of 8%
globally in the past two years – steady progress
toward our goal of 20% reduction.
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Adding vegetables, whole grains, and legumes
We are also working to increase the percentage of our portfolio that includes
vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. As reported last year, all of our tomatobased cooking sauces include at least one serving of vegetables per serving. In
addition, approximately 35% of our rice products include one serving of wholegrains or legumes per serving – roughly steady with where we were last year as
we prepare to introduce new products offering whole grains and legumes andexpand availability of our best-selling whole grain products. When these products
hit shelves in the next couple of years, we will move closer to our goal that 50%
of our rice products deliver one serving of whole grains and/or legumes per
serving.

Updating on-pack recipes
Our work continues to update on-pack recipes so that they suggest healthier meal options withmore vegetables, fruits, lean proteins, and whole grains. We know from research conducted byMars in Australia a few years ago that consumers follow our recipe suggestions closely,
and this gives us a powerful opportunity to help consumers eat healthier. For example, inAustralia we updated the on-pack recipe for our MASTERFOODS® Honey Mustard Chicken
recipe base by reducing the amount of sodium suggested, and encouraging the addition ofa cup of dry rice instead of mashed potato.

As one of the nation’s top food companies, Mars’ commitment toencourage and support healthier eating is vital to the health of thecountry. From improving the nutritional quality of its products tooffering nutrition education classes to its Associates, these investments
give more families more opportunities to live healthier lives.
— NANCY E. ROMAN
President & CEO, Partnershipfor a Healthier America
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Nutrition
Transparency

Today, 100% of
our products meet
our commitment
to include frontof-pack nutrition
labeling clearly
identifying theamount of calories,
sodium, sugar, fat,and saturated fat
in a serving.

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Our consumers understandably
want to know what's in the foods
they eat and serve to their families.
A key component of our global
Health & Wellbeing Ambition istransparency – using nutrition
labeling and our brand websites
to give consumers information
about our products that can help
them make informed choices.
Today, 100% of our products
meet our commitment to include
front-of-pack nutrition labelingclearly identifying the amount ofcalories, sodium, sugar, fat, andsaturated fat in a serving. In somemarkets, where a coalition ofindustry stakeholders and policy
makers have aligned around newfront-of-pack labeling schemes,
we’ve signed on to these labelinginitiatives to help consumers
interpret nutrition information via
colors, symbols, or other graphics.
In addition to on-pack labeling,
product nutrition information isavailable online for 96% of our
products (by sales value), andwe’re working to get to 100%
as soon as possible.

A key component of our global Health & Wellbeing
Ambition is transparency – using nutrition labelingand our brand websites to give consumers
information about our products that can help themmake informed choices.
We have also committed to provide consumers with information, on label andon our websites, regarding how often it is recommended that they consume
each of our products, using global nutrition guidance from the WHO and otherpublic health authorities as our guide. Today, 72% of our products meet theMars Food Nutrition Criteria for calories, sodium, added sugar, and fats(so-called ‘Nutrients to Limit’), and because of this nutrition profile, theseproducts can be enjoyed any day. A smaller percentage of our portfolio falls
outside our Nutrition Criteria due to the authentic and more indulgent natureof the recipe. Labeling designed to help consumers identify the difference
between these foods is now being rolled out, first with our DOLMIO® brand in
the UK, and soon with our UNCLE BEN’S® brand in the UK and Europe, as well.
By 2021, we aim to have this information incorporated on all of our productpackages, as labels are updated. In the meantime, we are working to provide
this guidance on product websites, and today this information is online forapproximately 70% of our portfolio (by sales value).

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Inspiring Healthy Cooking& Eating at Home
Bens BeginnersTM Program
US & Canada

Germany

In the US, the 2017 UNCLE BEN’S® Ben’s
Beginners™ Cooking Contest inspired
kids to cook with their families for thesixth year in a row, in partnership withactress and mom Tiffani Thiessen. Fivewinners each received $15,000 for
their family and $30,000 for a schoolcafeteria makeover, as well as a surprise
hometown celebration. Drawing toptier media coverage, engagement ofgovernment stakeholders, and support
from 15 national retailers, this program
continues to increase its impact, withmore than 791 million media impressions
in 2017. To date, UNCLE BEN’S® has
donated approximately $1 million tofamilies and schools through the Ben’s
Beginners™ program in the US.

Our fourth annual Ben’s Beginner’s™ program in Germany brought a popularchef, Meta Hiltebrandt, together with bloggers and kids for a healthy cooking
event in Hamburg to inspire kids to cook with their families at home. Reachof the campaign exceeded 112 million. As part of the Ben’s Beginners™
campaign, Mars Food released results of a German online survey that showedthat more than a third of families would cook more often with their kids if they
had the right child-friendly tools. Armed with the survey results, the idea of
the UNCLE BEN’S® “Mitkochhocker” (step stool) was born – a colorful, fun stepstool to give kids a chance to have a great cooking experience alongside theiradult family members. In total, 75,000 step stools were distributed to families
via UNCLE BEN’S®.

In Canada, Ben’s Beginners™ hadstrong customer focus with activations
in almost 400 stores, including cooking
demos and sampling. The contest
awarded one grand prize winner a$10,000 contribution to an Education
Savings Plan.
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Mars Food released results ofa German online survey thatshowed that more than a thirdof families would cook more
often with their kids if they had
the right child-friendly tools.

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Mars Food UK signs up to ‘Peas Please’ Initiative
In October 2017, Mars Food UK joined the ‘Peas Please’ initiative to help
reverse declining vegetable consumption in the UK. Developed by the
Food Foundation and World Wildlife Fund-UK, Peas Please brings together
farmers, retailers, caterers, manufacturers, and government departmentswith a common goal of making it easier for everyone to eat vegetables. As
part of its commitment to Peas Please, Mars Food is updating our on-packand online recipe suggestions to encourage meals that provide 2 of your
‘5 a day’, and will continue to ensure our tomato-based sauces containat least one serving of vegetables per person per serving. We’ll also be
championing increased veg with our Foodservice customers.

We pledge to play our part to help
everyone in Britain eat an extra
portion of vegetables a day.
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Helping Kids Learn How to
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reaching out into their communities to sharethe joy of cooking healthy meals with others
and inspire kids to cook healthy meals athome with their families. In the UK, Mars Food
Associates partnered with eight schools and
300 local students to teach them about goodnutrition and how to cook a healthy meal, as
part of our Fun Food Science program. The
event was delivered in collaboration with The
Let’s Cook Project, and was a big hit with bothteachers and students.

We hope to spark an
interest at an early
age in where foodcomes from and how
to eat a balanced diet.
It's inspiring for ourteams and great fun foreveryone involved.
— STEPHANIEDOMANGE
General Manager,
Mars Food France

In France, Mars Food has been engaging withschools through the ‘Les Petits Chefs’ program which utilizes our Fun Food Sciencecurriculum to teach students about the origins of their favorite foods, the importance ofsustainability, and the basics of nutrition. In the past year, 600 students have ‘graduated’
through the program.
In Russia, our team works with young people in the area surrounding our factoryin Lukhovitsky to teach nutrition and cookery skills- building skills for life and also
demonstrating the kind of careers available within the food industry.

It was a brilliant day and weknow the children will takethis new passion for foodand cooking home to cookwith their families.
— KATIE ELLIOTT
Year 4 Teacher, Sherard Primary School

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Advancing Associate
Health and Wellbeing
For Mars Food, Health & Wellbeing starts at home
– with our own Associates. From the design of
our facilities to Associate benefits to the food weprovide in our cafeterias, we strive to ensure allof our Associates have the opportunity to live ahealthy, active life. By 2021, we have committed
to ensure all of our Associates have access to
on-site kitchens where they can cook and eat
healthy meals together, on-site or subsidized
off-site fitness facilities, healthier meals in our site
canteens, and nutrition education to help themeat more balanced meals at work and at home.

And we aren’t stopping there. Many of our sites
are testing additional, innovative programmingthat can help Associates improve resilience andlive healthier lives. We’re incorporating stand-up
desks, treadmill desks, and walking areas inmany of our sites to make it easier for Associates
to stay active while at work. We’re also
partnering in new ways with our catering
providers to help Associates make informed
choices in our canteens.

We’re proud to report that, one year into our Ambition:

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of our sites offer canteen meals compliant
with the Mars Food Nutrition Criteria (steady)

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We believe nutrition information has thegreatest impact when we know how to use it.
That’s why we invest in programs at our sitesthat share the latest nutrition information
with Associates and help them understandnutrition labeling. For example, we offer ‘What
You Need to Know’ sessions for Associates inGreenville, Mississippi; Bolton, Canada; andChicago, Illinois. At these events,
dietitians teach Associates
about a health &nutrition topic,
such as how to
reduce sodium inthe diet, or the
benefit of eating
legumes, anddo a cooking
demonstration.

of our sites offer nutrition education(up from 84% in 2016)of our sites have kitchens accessible to
Associates for shared meals (up from 84% in 2016)of our sites offer Associates accessto fitness facilities (up from 66% in 2016)The ‘What You Needto Know’ sessions were full ofphoto of elsa
great information. I’ve alreadyaddedmore legumes to my meals and healthysnacks after finding out how good they
are for you.
— ELSA TANGLAO
Affiliate Logistics Analyst,
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Want to learn more?
Check out theMars Health & Wellbeing website, where
you’ll find the Mars Food Nutrition Criteria
and more information about Health &Wellbeing at Mars Food.

Mars Food is a segment of Mars, Incorporated, a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products andoffering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces someof the world’s best-loved brands across dinnertime, confectionery, drinks, and pet food categories. Mars also provides veterinary healthservices that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in morethan 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000
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