Coventry University Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Fri, 10 May 2013 11:43:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Coventry University Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Many Celeb Chefs’ Recipes Not Healthy: Study https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/05/09/1-celeb-chefs-recipes-not-that-healthy-study-shows/ Fri, 10 May 2013 03:55:44 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10355 Celebrity chefs serve up amazing food that tastes great and is good for you, right?

Research shows that most people believe that food created by famous chefs is generally healthy.

Well, maybe not.

Some researchers at Coventry University in Britain took a look at 904 recipes written by 26 celebrity chefs.

A celebrity chef is a chef who has become famous and popular—often because of they’re on a TV show or own a famous restaurant.

More than 85 per cent of the recipes the researchers tested “fell substantially short of the UK government’s healthy eating recommendations,” according to a media release on the Coventry University website. Most of the recipes called for ingredients that are known to contribute to health problems like obesity and heart disease.

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