Many ready meals ‘contain more sugar than ice cream’

SAVOURY meals lick vanilla ice cream in terms of sugar content, a leading consumer organisation discovered.

British-based Which? found that savoury meals such as Tesco crispy beef with sweet chilli sauce and Asda sticky chilli chicken contain more sugar per gram than vanilla ice cream.

Tesco’s ready meal contains 23.1g sugar per 100g, or 57.6g per pack, while