Children missing their 5 a day
With only 12% of Britain’s children receiving their recommended five fruit and veg a day, we ask the public their thoughts on this.
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00:00Promoting healthy eating ultimately. Across the board, if you ask my mum, she's very much one that you go back to basics and you can make a very good hearty soup with a few vegetables.
00:13And it's education, isn't it? That's what it boils down to, educating people to be able to cook well.
00:19I think it's a parent's responsibility to do that. I don't think it's necessarily the school's.
00:25I'm a firm believer in good parenting. I don't think enough parents are educated in 5a day.
00:32And I think just passing on to the schools to sort it out is a bit of a cop out.
00:38Yeah, I appreciate that as a kid, they're not all amenable to fruit and veg and what have you.
00:45It's not quite as attractive as other sweet foods and what have you, but I'm a great believer if you introduce kids to it early
00:54and they start eating a carrot rather than a lollipop, then they're going to be better for it.