Are celebrity chef recipes healthy?

mnn.com 19 Dec '12, 10pm

Are celebrity chef recipes healthy?

Well here’s something that’s not so shocking. The recipes found in my celebrity chef cookbooks can often be higher in fat, calories, and protein per serving than many packaged foods. A study was recently published in the British Medical Journal with these findings. One hundred recipes from celebrity chef cookbooks were compared to 100 ready meals, or TV dinners as the study says we call them here in America. They took the top five cookbooks from Amazon’s UK site at the time. These are the cookbooks they used. "30 Minute Meals" by Jamie Oliver "Baking Make Easy" by Lorraine Pascale "Ministry of Food" by Jamie Oliver "Kitchen" by Nigella Lawson "River Cottage Everyday" by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall The randomly chosen recipes from those cookbooks were put up against ready made meal from the following brands. Asda Sainsbury’s Tesco They then compared their findings to nutrit...

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