Chicken tikka Mo Salah
Play one and a half football matches to work off Britain’s favourite meal
FEELING ready to relax after enjoying your chicken tikka masala with pilau rice and a popadom?
Too bad – you now need to run like Liverpool striker Mo Salah to work it off.
Diet experts reckon to burn the 1,389 calories in our nation’s favourite meal, you have to play a football match and a half – or run a half-marathon.
Our second-favourite dish, fish and chips, leaves you needing to cycle 22.5 miles in under two hours to use up its 1,086cals. And you need to swim for two and a half hours to cancel out a thirdplaced roast dinner, which has 1,027cals.
Unless you are prepared to spend 3hrs 20mins in the gym doing weights and cardio, avoid pepperoni pizza – as our fourth-favourite nosh has 1,992cals. And you are bonkers to think sex will help to burn off the 1,172cals in our fifthchoice meal... er, bangers and mash. Men would need to romp for six hours and women eight, according to the study by Forza Supplements. Managing director Lee Smith said: “The UK’s most popular dishes are incredibly calorific and need exhausting exercise to burn the calories.”