Is the British diet improving?

The UK government's National Diet and Nutrition Survey report of Years 5 and 6 (2012/2013–2013/2014) of the Rolling Programme has just been published. By and large, the results are not encouraging. Compared to previous results from 2008/2009, little has changed and the national sample of children and adults continues to report eating too much saturated fat, non‐milk extrinsic sugars, too few fruit and vegetables and not enough oil‐rich fish, with certain groups of the population found to have low levels of some key vitamins and minerals. A glimmer of hope is that there are a couple of indicators of improvement, and overall, the UK population's diet has not got worse in the past 6 years.