The evaluation of the two-year nursery food study, co-ordinated by the Local Authorities Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS), found that despite nurseries' good intentions, children are being given the wrong portions of food and nutrients.
The report follows the launch last month of the Government review into standards of nursery food and the setting up of the Advisory Panel on Food and Nutrition in Early Years, which is to draw up recommendations on how the food prepared by nurseries and childminders could be improved.
Food samples from 118 nurseries in 29 local authorities were judged against the guidelines of the Caroline Walker Trust.
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