From Dyane Silvester, Arnside, Cumbria, UK
Your article on calorie counts on menus says the UK guidelines require them to sit within a 20 per cent margin of error, yet the gap between your opening example of a chicken burger and fries (1597 kcal) and their plant-based alternative (1746 kcal) is within this margin. Presumably even those who want to make “healthy” choices might not be picking the lower-calorie option. Maybe the bigger problem is that it is so cheap and easy to buy a meal with 70 per cent of an adult’s daily recommended calorific intake (30 November 2024, p 14).
