Day 269 - 25 Jun 96 - Page 20


     
     1        tried to say they have no important --
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I just need to know because there is a long
     4        list of elements there.
     5        A.   Yes.
     6
     7   Q.   I need to know whether they are important nutrients or
     8        not.  That is all.
     9        A.   One of the interesting things about it, my Lord, if I
    10        can just slightly amplify it, is that you do find a lot of
    11        these B vitamins, for argument's sake, tend to go together
    12        in the food chain, but I think, you know, I stand by what I
    13        said, that McDonald's meats do provide nutrients, there is
    14        no question about it.  The only point I was trying to make
    15        was that you can obtain those same nutrients without having
    16        the high saturated fat load.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS:  Compared to the meals that you have compared them
    19        to, are McDonald's high or low in the important nutrients?
    20        A.   Yes, I --
    21
    22   Q.   You can see the figures?
    23        A.  Well, to be honest with you, I was not trying to make a
    24        point about this. I was really trying to make the very
    25        simple point that you can obtain the same nutrients from
    26        other food sources which --
    27
    28   Q.   But if we look at your chart, it is clear that virtually
    29        all the figures for the other meals, apart from McDonald's
    30        meals, are greater in the nutrients than -- for virtually
    31        all of those nutrients, they are higher?
    32        A.   Yes.
    33
    34   Q.   In the non-McDonald's meals?
    35        A.  Yes.
    36
    37   Q.   Sometimes very substantially higher?
    38        A.  Yes.  I mean, you can -- if you use the actual
    39        products, you can do that.
    40
    41   MS. STEEL:  For example, in the vitamin A in the McDonald's meal
    42        there is 37.9 ug whereas in the homemade meal there is 413
    43        ug?
    44        A.  I think that is a mistake.  That is 41.3.
    45
    46   Q.   Is it?
    47        A.  Yes.
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But, in any event, you have not set out in
    50        this exercise - it is not to stop Miss Steel or Mr. Morris
    51        asking you if it is important - you have not set out to
    52        demonstrate that they are low in the nutrients set out
    53        there, full stop?
    54        A.   No.
    55
    56   Q.   You have just done a comparison with a homemade meal
    57        instead?
    58        A.  Yes.  I am just saying that you can get these same
    59        nutrients from homemade products without jeopardising the
    60        nutrient value and, as Mr. Morris has said, in some cases

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