Was going to say the same myself John. And this is obviously parents buying these as most kids don’t have the money and get it from home.

Giving a kid junk food, crap dinners, easy made dinners such as microwave meals, crap sugary cereals for breakie and wash everything down with a sugary drink is asking for problems and is a lazy way. I see some parents give kids a chocolate bar, crisps or sweets to keep them quiet. I only got them as a reward and only once a week. My mother always said “If you can’t grow it or kill it then don’t eat it”.

Nope. We knew there was an obesity problem due to poor diet and lack of exercise.

We wondered why we ate badly and didn’t exercise. This top 100 list won’t tell us that.

I live in Holland and I have to say that every time I return home I put on a few kilos thanks to Irish eating habits. Diets really aren’t varied or healthy in Ireland and serious exercise is needed to balance that out. Ireland needs to either vary the foods people are willing to eat (which is a mentality problem) or do something actually constructive to promote exercise. Preferably both.

Just as an example, I dropped about 12 kg in weight thanks to a more varied and healthy European diet and exercise within my first few months living here.

Blame yourself. I’m ripped and live in Ireland. There is no excuse for not exercising and eating well. What makes you avoid chips and mayonnaise in Holland but at home you’ll happily inhale a large taco fries?

I’ve been living abroad the last year and came home for a few weeks over August. I was gobsmacked at the amount of overweight and obese kids I saw on the street. I don’t know if it was selective memory or now living somewhere people eat less processed food but it was really sad to see 6 and 7 year olds struggling to run in a park.

It is sad Karl. The kids don’t run and the parents don’t cook. I believe we are seeing the direct result of the 2 parent working families based on long commutes.

@ Irish Renters The kid of a friend of mine once asked me (a couple of years back) if I wanted to play football next time I visited. I said yes and brought a football for him next time I was over. He was soooo excited to play football and told me he’d be ready in a few minutes. He called me into the living room: his Playstation was on and THAT was “playing football” to him.

@Jason Culligan I’ve had a similar experience too since moving away. I’ve lost about 15kg – part down to a better, fresher diet, but I also do a lot of long-distance running now too – but it’s far easier to create a healthier diet here in Portugal than in Ireland. Fruit and veg are so much more cheaper and fresher than home and supermarkets have proper fish-counters with lots of affordable fresh fish, not like home where most peoples’ experience of fish is processed and covered in breadcrumbs.

I wouldn’t expect coca cola to be number 1 .

Coca cola has that honour world wide too, atleast in the ‘branded’ world

I agree Gerry but unfortunately it’s not an article about obesity.

Ah crap and I was just going to pop out for a Potato Pie Supper, its a treat, stop making me feel guilty.

Walkers always seem to have offers on them (reduced price or buy one get one free). Probably what makes them so popular.

Seems to be branded products Elmo, its cadburys dairymilk rather than just Cadburys. so I’d imagine its coke their on about. The biggest surprise to me is walkers being their, there must be some puck of secret walkers buyers

For me, for a normal packet of crisps, it’s Tayto, but for the posh ones, it’s Walkers eg sweet chilli. Though I don’t know what’s included in the “brand”.

prove its you! send us a pic of you reading this weeks farmers journal!

Mmmm. Danon.

Portions per pack would make a difference. 80 tea bags last much longer than a can of coke.

Fruit and veg is always at the start of the shopping trail because if it was last people wouldn’t buy any at all, …….shopping psychology is well researched.

Yes it suggests ‘priority’ in the mind of the consumer, ergo they buy fruit and veg. My point is that the Irish diet can’t be bad as what it would be if you judged solely on this list of branded goods.

No fruit and veg is at the beginning of the shop because it looks so damn good and because it creates an association with nature.

Ailís, believe me the Irish diet is as bad as this article suggests. Take that from someone who lives abroad and experiences the eating habits of our more healthy neighbours. Ireland and the UK have an obsession with fatty and high-calorie foods. I won’t deny I like the odd bag of chips when I’m home just for the taste of being back, but I would maybe have chips once every 2 or 3 months compared to how frequent they are consumed in the average Irish persons diet as an example. We consume a lot of dairy products which is good, but combine that with fatty foods and low exercise and it’s a short road to health issues.

If you look at the PDF link in the article, there’s also top 100 categories list below the top 100 brands. Confectionery is at 1st place, fresh veg at 75th.

If you look at the PDF link in the article, there’s also top 100 categories list below the top 100 brands. Confectionery is at 1st place, fresh veg at 75th.

I think only Walkers and Danone are completely manufactured outside Ireland.

I’m counting 5, Coca cola, Avonmore , Brennans, Tayto and Cadbury dairy milk ?

Yeah, you trot around tesco in finglas on your high horse and tell everyone how bad each item in their trolley is for them..

Let us know how you get on.

Maybe Paddy O Gorman would be brave enough.

using terms like Fat pig really helps

Yep I’m in my sixties an the last two years I have taken six inches off my waist only changed my eating habits and exercise will never go back to where I was,one other thing looking at our eating habits it’s no coincidence looking at top brands laden with cholesterol and sugar we have the highest incidence of heart attacks and strokes un Europe.

That’s simply how i seen myself

We certainly have a lot lot more people out walking and running Richard but we have a lot of people going the other way. just walk along any street or supermarket and count the fatties to the skinnies, the ratio is well off. I used to be one of the former and took a lot of work to lose it. I now see how bad my diet was and lack of excercise wasn’t so clear to me at the time though..

I was wondering how crisps, soft drinks and chocolate can be classified as ‘groceries’ ?

it truly is a vile ‘beer’… ill take a can of bass anyday!

Spot on Bilbo & Hubert. Budweiser is a bland, awful beer. Carlsberg is by far the best of the ‘widely available’ beer brands

Is your name Victoria Beckham! People in the real world need to have a larger waist then that of a 7 year old. A balanced diet with exercise. No need to over do the veggies. You can be healthy with junk food thrown in now and then.

I was more replying to the “And we wonder why we’re fat” comments above but anyway thanks for the advice. The ironic thing about your comment is that a vegetable could probably muster up a better one.

P.S. My name is Declan O’Flaherty. There’s a clue for you above my comment.

I see your point Declan. Did we really need a study like this to tell us that people clearly aren’t eating right. Nope. I have to say that recently I’ve been disgusted by the amount of grossly overweight people in Ireland. And I don’t mean people who have a little muffin top or could stand to lose a few pounds. I mean proper horrible so fat they can’t walk properly people!

To be fair though, like someone pointed out, there isn’t really one brand when it comes to fruit and vegetables. They tend to be fairly localised suppliers or supermarket own brands. It would be interesting to see what individual items are the most bought, or even a more generalised “fruit” or “veg” or “chocolate” or “fizzy drinks” kind of thing.

No, 7Up is part of the Britvic group that bottle Club, Cidona and others. Coca-Cola have Sprite as their own take on it.

Because Avonmore is available pretty much all over the country. Premier is a Dublin brand.

Premier is one of several regional brands that Glanbia have around the country (also CMP and Snowcream). Avonmore is Glanbia’s nationwide brand. They’re all from the same dairies, though.

Oh wait, it’s the other way around :D booo!

Fruits have natural sugars love. Also your kids might not be overweight but that does not mean they are healthy. Also if they are brown you should be protecting their skin from harmless rays. I’m amazed you actually posted such a perfect example of weak patenting.