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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Emily Beament

Reshuffling canteen menu can help diners choose greener, healthier meals – study

Research suggests that swapping around canteen menus can help diners make healthier choices (Alamy/PA) -

Reshuffling a canteen’s weekly menu can be a “sneaky” way to encourage diners to choose meals that are healthier and more environmentally friendly, researchers said.

A study led by researchers at the University of Bristol found that simply reordering an existing set menu to change which dishes were “competing” each evening in a student halls of residence canteen cut the carbon footprint of diners’ weekly meal choices by nearly a third overall.

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