Health challenge for Indian restaurants in Lincolnshire
INDIAN restaurants have completed a project that challenged them to offer healthier dishes with no difference to taste.
Five restaurants in Lincolnshire created new menus which had significantly reduced fat, salt and calorie content from last year.
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The outlets, including The Passage to India on High Street in Lincoln, and Mowgli, Metheringham were part of a pilot scheme, called Health by Stealth, run by NHS Lincolnshire.
Dr Tony Hill, director of public health for NHS Lincolnshire, said: "This project is innovative because we are trying to change the behaviour of those who supply the food rather than directly targeting consumers to ask them to cut down or cut out."
Work on the project begun after testing at 60 East Midlands restaurants by Trading Standard. uncovered high levels of salt, saturated fat and calories in many takeaway dishes. The other restaurants in the project were The Star of India, Boston, The Agra, Sleaford and Kismet, Grantham.
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