Too much sugar and hardly any fruit and vegetables -- the Soil Association's 2016 Out to Lunch report finds many popular family destinations are let down by their children's menus
Sustain member the Soil Association has published the results of its annual survey of children's menus, in which an army of undercover diners investigates kids' options at the UK's most popular museums, zoos, theme parks, visitor centres and art galleries. The results were not impressive.
The survey found:
- Children’s lunchboxes lacking healthy options and overloaded with sugar. A lunchbox at London Zoo included 189% of a child’s daily sugar allowance.
- 75% of children’s lunchboxes surveyed didn’t include any veg or salad options.
- The British Museum, the most popular attraction in Britain, declined to confirm whether it uses any British produce or local ingredients.
- The Natural History Museum and Brighton Pier scored in joint last place in the league table.
- The Eden Project scored in first place.
- The survey found cost was no barrier to good food – children’s meals at the five bottom-scoring attractions were on average more than £1 more expensive than children’s meals at the five top scoring attractions.
Read the league table here, and find out more about Sustain's campaign work for healthier children's diets here.
Published Friday 21 October 2016
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