Celebrity chefs encourage others to cook their own meals

The study, carried out by The Fat Panel, an independent board of experts on dietary fats, found that in all bar one case, the versions from the celebrity chefs were much less healthy than the traditional typical version, thanks to their prolific use of high saturated fat ingredients such as double cream, butter and whole milk.

Four celebrity recipes had, in a single portion, more than the recommended daily amount of saturated fat for men (30 grams a day), including Nigella Lawson’s Sunday Roast, which weighed in at a hefty 36.9g of saturated fats.

Furthermore, 11 of the 17 celebrity recipes contained more than an entire day’s recommended amount of saturated fat for women in a single meal (20 grams a day), such as Delia Smith’s Steak & Kidney Pie, which contained 23.3g of saturated fat per portion.

Toni and Giorgio’s home-cooked Fish and Chips was the only celebrity recipe in which the amount of saturated fats was reduced.

Dr Sarah Schenker, from the Fat Panel, said, ‘For an occasional treat, eating dishes high in calories and saturated fat is fine but as this report has focused on people’s favourite choices, it is likely these dishes are being eaten on a regular basis and that can result in some shockingly high intakes of saturated fat.’