Nutritionist warns over sugar content in Easter eggs

Irish children will get an average of five Easter eggs this weekend in an annual sugar splurge that will see them eat their way through more than 160 tonnes of chocolate.

Two in five children will get five eggs this Easter; 23% will get six to 10 eggs, while 12% will be given 10 to 15 eggs, an Irish Examiner /MummyPages.ie survey reveals.

The study, ‘Easter Egg Insights’, also showed the 941 mothers surveyed were worried about the sharp rise in chocolate consumption, but found it difficult to ask well-meaning relatives not to give presents of eggs.