Speaking at a Labour fringe event hosted by the Social Market Foundation and the Food Standards Agency, Brennan said his visits to schools where pupils lived mainly on “white working class estates” showed their food preferences to be dominated by “pizza, chips and takeaways”. By contrast, pupils at schools in areas of high ethnic diversity expressed an “incredibly rich array” of favourite foods, with exotic fruits among them. “This is a cultural challenge. Food preferences are set at a very early age,” he said.
Brennan said that millions of households in deprived communities do not eat round a table, not simply out of choice but sometimes because of lack of living space.
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