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that more than 30% of the products did not disclose the amount of saturated fat inthe food. Of the 247 products that did label saturated fat content, 73 of them(30%) contained high levels of saturates. Moderate amounts of saturated fat (seenote to Table 3) were found in a further 86 products (35%). Examples of productscontaining high levels of saturated fat are given in the table below.Table 6: Examples of products with ‘a lot’ of saturated fat (> 5g/100g)Manufacturer Brand/Product Name Saturated fat (g per 100g)ASDA Garden Gang sweetened coconut cubes 28.0Rivington Pink Panther wafer biscuits 27.6MD Foods Plc Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends Cheese19.0TrianglesKraft Dairylea Strip Cheese pizza flavour 17.5Sainsbury’s Mr Men cheese food slices 15.4Safeway Chocolate-hazelnut spread 12.7Cadbury’s Snowman ice lollies 10.34.3 FatHealth experts recommend that everyone over the age of five should be eating adiet that obtains less than 35% of its energy from fat (COMA, 1991). As anexample, a seven to ten year old child with an average daily intake of 1800calories should eat no more than 70g of fat to keep within this general guideline.Foods with more than 20g fat per 100g or per portion were considered to havehigh levels of fat (see note to Table 3). Eleven of the 358 products in the surveycould not be classified because of incomplete information on the labels. Of theremaining 347 products, 56 (16%) contained high levels of total fat. A further 168(48%) products contained moderate amounts of total fat (see note to Table 3).Examples of products containing high levels of fat are given in the table below.18