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A ‘worrying’ proportion of ‘food insecure’ families are cutting back on healthy food, sparking concerns of widening health inequalities.

The Food Foundation's research highlights a widening equalities gap between 'food secure' and 'food insecure' households, PHOTO: Adobe Stock

New data from The Food Foundation’s Food Insecurity Tracker shows the gap in consumption of healthy foods is widening between ‘food secure’ and ‘food insecure’ families.

Deprived four and five-year-olds twice as likely to be obese

According to the findings, 15 per cent of households in the UK are experiencing ‘food insecurity’ – an estimated eight million adults and three million children.

Of households that reported experiencing food insecurity in the past month, 60 per cent also reported cutting back on purchasing fruit compared to 11 per cent of food secure households.

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