36 per cent of parents give preschoolers junk food to snack on

Because their children don’t like like healthy food, it’s easier or cheaper are the three main reasons given by parents who allow their children to snack on junk food.

A recent study of more than 1,000 parents with children under the age of four found that 36 per cent of parents constantly fed them junk food snacks.

The majority of 52 per cent claimed they fed their children an equal balance of junk and healthy snacks, but just 12 per cent only stopped their children from eating junk snacks at all.

The findings by MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, discovered that 55 per cent of parents thought that healthy snack foods were too expensive.