Children's Food Ignorance

The British Nutrition Foundation has carried out a survey amongst primary school children and found that their knowledge of food isn't so good.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/childrens-f...0.html#XnoB0PK

However, it is quoted that:

29% of primary school children think that cheese comes from plants - doesn't that translate to 71% know that it doesn't?

18% primary school children said that fish fingers comes from chicken - 82% know they're not made from chicken?

8% of primary school children said they had not eaten breakfast that morning - isn't that stating that 92% did have breakfast?

I remember the Aprils' Fool joke that the BBC played about the spaghetti harvest failing and fully grown adults fell for that one!

Is this a case of 'There are lies, damned lies and statistics'?

Re: Children's Food Ignorance

I think children generally are not being taught about food at all, and if they were we would see a lot of products disappear from the shops because once you know what is in them no one in their right mind would eat them.

I also think parents are not best placed to teach them about it all these days as the last few generations have become divorced from food and cooking and have no idea themselves about food.

Some don't even know how to eat with a knife and fork, as I discovered a few years ago when my nephew brought home a friend who was baffled when presented with food on a plate needing cutting to eat, apparently if it wasn't between two pieces of bread he had no idea how to tackle it ! He was 12 BTW !!