Reduce portion sizes to help improve the nation's diet, says BHF

26 March 2010

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has recommended that food manufacturers make single, smaller size portions of their products available to help reduce the amount of fat, salt and sugar people eat.

The FSA's calls apply to products such as cakes, biscuits and sugary drinks. Betty McBride, Policy & Communications Director at the British Heart Foundation, said:

"It's easy to tuck into treats such as biscuits, cakes and sugary drinks without realising just how packed full of calories, fats, salts and sugars they are.

"Reducing portion sizes and the amount of saturated fat in foods will help to improve the nation's diet and help tackle obesity and heart disease.

"If this is to be successful, it needs to be accompanied by a single front of pack food labelling scheme that combines traffic light colours, GDAs and the words high, medium and low to help busy shoppers understand at a glance what's in the food they're buying."