All the coverage came from a British Heart Foundation publicity stunt - sorry, research survey - in which 1,000 young people aged eight to 14 were interviewed. It revealed that 36 per cent could not correctly identify potato as the main ingredient of chips.
Hang on a minute, though. Even this survey shows that a clear majority of eight- to 14-year-olds do know chips are made of spuds.
Also, a large number of those who answered "wrongly" said that chips were made mainly of oil. The fact that chips are fatty and don't contain much in the way of nutrition has been drummed into kids for years. It hardly seems fair to ridicule them when they repeat the health message mantra they have had beamed at them.
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