A new survey, commissioned for Healthy Eating Week (10 -14 June 2024) by the British Nutrition Foundation and conducted by YouGov found that the price of healthier foods is the main factor holding parents back from feeding their children a healthy diet. This survey asked 1007 British parents of children up to age 18, to choose which factors made it harder to feed their children a healthy diet, what would help them provide a healthier diet and what makes it difficult to get their children to eat vegetables. In response, almost half of all parents surveyed (45%) said that healthy
Price of food a key barrier to providing healthy diets for children as seen on The Hippocratic Post.