Day 015 - 21 Jul 94 - Page 27
1 A. Yes.
2 Q. If we look at the sugar -----
3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Could you just pause there, because we have
already seen what is in table 4, the chips at home. But
4 I notice that is "retail fried in", so I suppose those are
frozen chips which you then just fry. Would it be any
5 different to that figure if one peeled the potato, sliced
it oneself and then fried it?
6 A. Yes, I think actually that was meant to be fried in
vegetable oil. Vegetable oil has got lost somewhere.
7
Q. But what is the retail?
8 A. It would be what you buy from a fish and chip shop.
9 Q. I see. So that is not the chips I make myself at home, if
I do?
10 A. Again it depends on the choice of oil.
11 Q. But if I did my own chips in vegetable oil, I would come
out with the same figure, would I?
12 A. That is right. Again you can see that the amount of
fat, the amount of total fat, that you get in the chips
13 from a shop are probably going to be the same if you do
them at home. It is about the same as you get in
14 McDonald's.
15 MS. STEEL: What figures would you come up with if you boiled
your potatoes or baked them?
16 A. Well, you would get very much less. There is no
question about that.
17
Q. Right.
18 A. We are not disputing that.
19 Q. Right.
A. I mean, we accept that if we fry something in deep
20 fat, then we are going to absorb some of the fat. I mean,
that is one of the things that adds to the attractiveness
21 from an eating point of view. I am sure there are many
mums who would love to give their children boiled
22 potatoes, but they insist on having chips.
23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Some mums like chips too?
A. Yes, and good for them!
24
MS. STEEL: Undoubtedly, there is also a mashed potato.
25 Perhaps, as you referred to earlier, advertising might
play some part in this?
26 A. Yes, and people's enjoyment might also play some part
in this.
27
Q. To carry on, the total sugar content of the potato is 0
28 per cent of calories, and McDonald's french fries, it is
1.3 per cent of calories.
29 A. Well, a small increase, I grant you.
30 Q. The total fibre content of a potato is 21.3 milligrams of
calorie and from the french fries it is only 15.8?
