date:Oct 30, 2018
s, potato chips, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks.
The level of discretionary foods consumed is even higher for teenagers, making up more than 40 per cent of their daily energy intake.
For children, cakes, muffins, sweet biscuits, chips and ice cream are some of the leading contributors to their intake of discretionary food.
For adults aged 5170, alcoholic drinks account for more than one-fifth of discretionary food intake.
In the teenage years, when discretionary food intake peaks, it is co