{"id":58,"date":"2007-10-20T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T12:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/uk-restaurants-what-are-you-being-served\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T12:14:52","slug":"uk-restaurants-what-are-you-being-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/uk-restaurants-what-are-you-being-served\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Restaurants – What Are you Being Served"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK Restaurants – What Are you being served?<\/strong>
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\nAdults in the UK consume an average of 9g of salt a day, 3g higher than recommended by health experts<\/em><\/p>\n

The fact is that when you’re eating out you don\u2019t realise how much fat, salt, sugar and calories your meal contains. Add to that the fact that you often end up eating more than you would if dining at home and you\u2019re in danger of tipping the scales (metaphorically if not literally) <\/strong>to the limit. <\/p>\n

Pre-packed food sold in shops and packaged food in cafes (sandwiches, salads, desserts, drinks, etc) must, by law, display nutritional information and a list of ingredients. The Food Standards Agency\u2019s \u2018traffic light\u2019 initiative also helps the consumer to make healthy choices.<\/p>\n

However, there is no similar legislation affecting restaurant food and this makes it harder for the diner to gauge the fat, salt and sugar content.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Surveys reveal that around two-thirds of people would like to see nutrition labelling on menus and on menu boards in fast-food restaurants. Apart from helping all diners to make healthy choices, food labels are very important for people with diet-related diseases.<\/p>\n

You might be rubbing your hands with glee at the thought of what great value for money you\u2019re getting when the waiter presents you with a large plate piled high \u2013 but it\u2019s your health and wellbeing that could be picking up the tab.<\/p>\n

At the other end of the scale you might be fazed by the size of the portion on your plate. If you grew up in a household where your parents encouraged you to \u2018eat it all up\u2019 you might find it hard to overcome that early conditioning \u2013 but you\u2019ve grown up now and you don\u2019t have to \u2018lick the platter clean\u2019. There is no-one to chastise you. The chef won\u2019t be offended.
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\nThat old clich\u00e9 of chewing each mouthful ten times really works \u2013 eating slowly allows the message to get through to your stomach that you are full\u2019. At that stage \u2026 stop! And if you can\u2019t bear the thought of wasting good food, ask for a doggie bag.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK Restaurants – What Are you being served? Adults in the UK consume an average of 9g of salt a day, 3g higher than recommended by health experts The fact is that when you’re eating out you don\u2019t realise how much fat, salt, sugar and calories your meal contains. Add to that the fact that read more …<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}