High-calorie puddings dominate children's menus at food chains

One dessert had more than 400% of child’s daily sugar allowance, reveals new report assessing UK’s most popular restaurants

Children’s menus at some of the UK’s leading restaurant and pub chains are still dominated by super-sized calorific puddings and unlimited refills of unhealthy sugary drinks – undermining efforts to tackle the obesity crisis, a health campaign group has warned.

Hungry Horse’s popping candy wafer boat pudding contains 78g of sugar, more than 400% of a child’s daily sugar allowance, the Soil Association’s Out to Lunch report revealed on Wednesday.

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