Gone are the days when takeaways were an occasional treat. We eat 50 per cent more of them than we did before Covid, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies published this week. That is a concern, says the nutritionist Laura Southern, the founder of London Food Therapy, because “takeaways are often packed with salt, sugar and fat to make them tasty. Portion sizes can be up to four times bigger [than home-cooked meals], and once they’re in front of you you’re likely to eat the lot.”
Of course, the food we order varies wildly in nutritional content — there are 451 calories in a Wagamama salmon koyo bowl but 2,355 in a large Domino’s The Ultimate Carbonara stuffed-crust pizza (that’s 236 calories
