date:Dec 20, 2012
vision chefs contained significantly more energy, protein, fat, and saturated fat and less fibre per portion than ready meals.
Most cookery books do not provide nutritional information on recipes, which could help to inform consumers.
Less healthy
The meals featured in the chefs books were, on average, less healthy and more likely to achieve red traffic light labels, said the researchers.
The study compared 100 main meals from best-selling cookery books with 100 own-label supermarket ready m