What's Really in Our Kids' Food?

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Duration: 30 minutes

One in five children starts school already overweight and, according to the latest research, children who are fat by five are likely to stay that way. Shelley Jofre investigates the food being dished up to pre-schoolers at nurseries and at home.

There's a rapidly growing market in ready meals specifically for toddlers, but are they really a healthy option? The programme looks behind the marketing claims of some of the most popular children's brands and comes up with some surprising results.

  • Kids' Food: Test your knowledge

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    How much do you know about what is in foods marketed especially for children? Take the Panorama video quiz that the children at a Glasgow primary helped us create to find out.

  • Food Diary: What do your kids eat?

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    Do you know what your children are eating? Panorama asked four sets of parents in Glasgow to keep a food diary along with their children, to find out just how healthy their mealtimes really are.

  • The hunt for healthy food for children

    Panorama looks at the parental food dilemma when it comes to feeding the under-fives at a key stage in their development.

    Read more about the healthy foods issue

  • Children's Food Resources

    Here are a series of links to websites that focus on food, both for children and adults.

    Find the links here

  • Food manufacturers' comments to Panorama

    The makers of some of the foods marketed at children gave their comments to Panorama

    Read the comments

  • Your comments

    Read a selection of your comments on the programme

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Credits

Presenter
Jeremy Vine
Reporter
Shelley Jofre
Producer
Murdoch Rodgers

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