FSA welcomes healthy pub progress

23rd March 2010, 8:55am

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is congratulating pub chains that have offered their customers healthier choices in the last year by reducing saturated fat and salt content.

The chains: Whitbread, Punch Pub Company, Marston's Inns and Taverns, Greene King and JD Wetherspoon, all made their first commitments to healthy eating in February 2009 and were asked by the Agency to review and extend them each year.

Examples of how chains have made healthier choices include: Salt levels have been reduced by all the pub chains, with many products now meeting FSA 2010/2012 targets, all companies are working to reduce saturated fat levels in their products, and companies are looking to provide portions which meet their customers' needs.

Each company has now set itself further targets for the forthcoming year.

Clair Baynton, head of nutrition at the FSA, said: 'It's very encouraging to see so many parts of the UK pub industry making such good progress in providing healthier food choices to their customers. Eating out is nowadays a regular part of most people's lives so it's important that healthy options should be available whenever possible."

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