Fish fingers are made of chicken, children believe

CHEESE comes from plants and fish fingers are made of chicken, according to a significant number of children questioned on their knowledge of where food comes from.
By The Newsroom
Published 4th Jun 2013, 01:01 BST
Children think fish fingers are made of chickenChildren think fish fingers are made of chicken
Children think fish fingers are made of chicken

The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) included more than 27,500 children in the research and found that nearly a third of primary school children think that cheese comes from plants, and nearly one in five primary school children said that fish fingers comes from chicken.

The survey also found that one in 10 secondary school children believe that tomatoes grow under the ground.

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The largest of its kind, the study was conducted as part of the BNF’s Healthy Eating Week. More than 3,000 schools are participating in the week-long event, during which over 1.2 million children will learn about healthy eating and where food come from.

Roy Ballam, education programme manager at the BNF, said: “Through Healthy Eating Week, we hope to start the process of re-engaging children with the origins of food, nutrition and cooking, so that they grow up with a fuller understanding of how food reaches them and what a healthy diet and lifestyle consists of.”