Jamie’s Italian tops nutritional ranking for children’s meals
Jamie’s Italian and Strada have topped a league table produced by the Soil Association, which rates the nutritional value of children’s menus in UK restaurant chains. In conjunction with chef and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the environmental group found that progress had been achieved since its first ranking in 2013, with 13 chains including salad or vegetables with each meal and 12 using organic ingredients. However, some chains still served highly calorific meals and charged extra for vegetables. Beefeater and Weatherspoons were rated in the top five, while Prezzo and Nando’s received poor rankings. Burger King was bottom of the table.

Our Out To Lunch 2022 campaign sent an army of “secret diner” parents out to assess the quality of food on offer at 16 UK visitor attractions.

We gathered the results and marked the attractions out of 100. We revealed how attractions are “slicing, dicing and ditching” children’s menus as they battle with rising ingredient costs and staff shortages.