In spite of all the noise about eating vegetables and the millions spent on a  5-a-day campaign Britons are eating fewer vegetables. 
Figures  from the fresh produce organization Freshfel show UK consumers  ate  1 per cent more fruit in 2008 compared with the previous five-year  average, but vegetable consumption plummeted by 11 per cent.
These numbers come after several years of government promoted healthy eating campaigns including  5-a-day and the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme.
This comes right on the heels of doubt on the cancer-preventing  benefits of eating vegetables.
Jamie Oliver must be pulling his hair out.

