I hope you’ve had your breakfast because the latest government legislation may leave you staring at the kitchen cupboard, wondering whether anything’s still safe to eat. Plans to address childhood obesity by placing a ban on advertising certain foods on TV before 9pm have sent health experts into a tailspin, as the rules appear to make ads for a humble bowl of porridge a post-watershed event.
Bafflingly, “porridge oats, including instant porridge and other hot oat-based cereals” could be out — while cake icing, pies and ice-cream toppings are somehow in. It does pose the question of whether the health secretary Wes Streeting has met any children, if he thinks they’re too delicate to see hot cereal steaming up their tellies but can handle sausage
