Top 8: From Clonakilty to Rosscarbery, rating the best black and white puddings 

"We were impressed with gluten-free offerings which non-coeliacs can share and enjoy. Use gluten-free white pudding for bread-free stuffing."

Dig into these black and white puddings.

I was taken aback when doing a nutritional analysis of black and white puddings. I never expected my breakfast treat to have quite so much fat – up to 21% in some. It comes mainly from bacon and pork meat and added pork fat.

Salt levels were high too. It’s easy to exceed the Food Safety Authority's maximum recommendation of 4g salt per day. An Irish breakfast often comes with rashers and sausages, so as well as 0.5g in one slice of pudding, just one rasher could have 1.5g and a sausage 1g. And that’s before you slather butter on your toast.