Table 1 Bacchi questions and data analysis codes

1. What’s the “problem” represented to be (in food investment policy)?

Problem representation: definitions, explanations or reasons for food investment policy and nutrition outcome

2. What assumptions underpin this representation of the “problem”?

Assumptions: key concepts and categories for food investment policy and nutrition outcome

3. How has this representation of the “problem” come about?

Genealogy: influential actors, developments, decisions or events in the discourse on food investment policy

4. What is left unproblematic in this “problem” representation? Where are the silences?

Silencing: criticism, gaps or limitations in the discourse on food investment policy for nutrition

5. What effects are produced by this representation of the “problem”?

Effects: perspectives or opinions on alignment of food investment policy towards nutrition and health

6. How and where has this representation of the “problem” been produced, disseminated and defended? How has it been and/or how can it be disrupted and replaced?

Solutions: implications for coherence between food investment policy and nutrition and health outcomes