BAD, GOOD, BEST

How to get the most out of food choices. This week: Strawberries

BAD: Eton mess.

A portion of this meringue and fruit dessert has around 500 calories (a quarter of the daily limit for a woman), along with the maximum saturated fat (20g for a woman), and about 80 per cent of the daily added sugar limit, which contributes to tooth decay, obesity and type 2 diabetes.

GOOD: Dipped in dark chocolate. Eight strawberries (one of your fivea-day) dipped in 20g dark chocolate have 142 calories and 5g saturated fat (a quarter of your daily limit). The vitamin C in the strawberries synergises with polyphenols in dark chocolate, which protect against cell damage that can cause heart disease and cancer.

BEST: With Greek yoghurt. 100g of strawberries with 100g of 5 per cent fat Greek yoghurt contains 125 calories, no added sugar and a modest 3.6g saturated fat (18 per cent of your daily limit). This supplies 15 per cent of your daily calcium for strong bones and 71 per cent of your daily vitamin C, for a healthy immune system.