New Food Foundation analysis shows less healthy alternatives for packed lunches are substantially cheaper than the healthy packed lunch To further understand whether switching to cheaper options due to limited resources could result in children eating a less healthy packed lunch, we analysed the cost of a packed lunch consisting of less healthy alternative products and compared it with the cost of. [...] The alternative items in the unhealthy packed lunch are: The unhealthy lunch generally contains more sugar, and less fibre and micronutrients than the healthy lunch. [...] The smallest discrepancy was at Tesco where the healthy lunch was just 9% more expensive, compared to Aldi which had the biggest discrepancy, with the healthy lunch is 77% more expensive than the less healthy packed lunch. [...] • We have looked at the cost of the lunch across the five retailers with the biggest share of the market. [...] • The price given is for the proportion of the product needed for the portion sizes given, not the full cost of the item.
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