Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed)

Professor Frank O'Mara:

On the question about people not eating enough fruit and vegetables, we published a report in our TResearch publication about a month ago that compared what we eat with what is in the national guidelines and the food pyramid. The two outstanding findings were that we do not match the guidelines for fruit and vegetables and we are very good at picking off the top shelf, that is, the sweets and treats. We need to invert the pyramid somewhat.