Outed - Snack foods that make kids fatter
Tuesday January 23, 2007
By Martha McKenzie-Minifie


These are just three of the foods that Choice says are just as fattening as fast food. Photo / Paul Estcourt

Feed a child Nestle's Milo Cereal and the energy intake is right up there with pies or hot chips.

The cereal is one of several snacks available in New Zealand that a consumer magazine has "outed" for making children fat.

Choice, the Australian Consumers Association's magazine, has included the cereal, Ribena drink, and Uncle Toby's Roll Ups among its "foods that make kids fatter faster."

Despite often being enticingly tagged as "all natural", "low GI", and "real fruit", a single serving of some of the snack foods analysed by Choice pack as much of a kilojoule punch as a Big Mac.

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