Axa Wealth: apparently, cheese grows on plants

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There have been two surveys conducted recently involving young people in the UK noteworthy for their headline revelations, but also cause for concern, according to AXA Wealth International head of proposition Simon Willoughby.

The first survey was by the British Nutrition Foundation on healthy eating, cooking and the origin of food covering 27,500 children across the UK , which found that: • 29% of primary school pupils thought that cheese came from plants • 10% of secondary students believed that tomatoes grew beneath the ground • nearly 20% of children under 11 thought that chicken was the principal ingredient of fish fingers. Just as worrying was a survey of 1,800 young people aged 14 to 25 issued by Barclays and the Personal Finance Education Group as part of My Money Week , which found that: • 42% o...

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