2025 INFORMAS Canada report

The 2025 INFORMAS Canada report aims to benchmark the status of food environments in Canada and identify the most significant gaps where food environments do not support healthy eating, thereby identifying areas for strengthening policy. The report also seeks to examine how food environments in Canada may contribute to improving or exacerbating dietary and health inequities.  

This collates the results of multiple independent studies conducted across Canada between 2020 and 2024 by the INFORMAS Canada network and others that have rigorously evaluated elements of food environments. Many of these studies represent unique collaborations established to bring together existing data and collect new data, adapting elements of INFORMAS methodologies to provide a comprehensive portrait of Canadian food environments.  

The "An in-depth look at Canada's food environments - Results from INFORMAS Canada includes the “Processes” and” Impacts” components of the INFORMAS monitoring framework, in addition to a section on digital food environments. The Complementary reports present the results for the "Outcomes" component of the monitoring framework.

Complementary reports

• Vanderlee L, Vaillancourt C, Olstad DL, Ahmed M, Hamamji S, Jovovic S, L’Abbé MR, Rimouche S, Moubarac JC. An in-depth look at the quality of population diet in Canada: Results from INFORMAS Canada – Complementary report. 2025 (forthcoming)
• Vanderlee L, Vaillancourt C, Hamamji S, Olstad, DL.. An in-depth look at the risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in Canada: Results from INFORMAS Canada - Complementary report. 2025 (forthcoming)
• Vanderlee L, Vaillancourt C, Hamamji S, Olstad, DL An in-depth look at the rates of diet-related noncommunicable disease morbidity and mortality in Canada: Results from INFORMAS Canada – Complementary report. 2025 (forthcoming)