A list of the 49 foods outlined by Otago University researchers that contain little nutritional benefit and should be avoided by those on a healthy diet or obese people.

The NEEDNT, or non-essential, energy dense, nutritionally deficient, list:

1.Alcoholic drinks

2.Biscuits

3.Butter, lard, dripping or similar fat (used as a spread or in baking/cooking etc.)

4.Cakes

5.Chocolate

6.Coconut cream

7.Condensed milk

8.Cordial

9.Corn chips

10.Cream (including creme fraiche)

11.Crisps (including vegetable crisps)

12.Desserts/puddings

13.Doughnuts

14.Drinking Chocolate, Milo etc.

15.Energy drinks

16.Flavoured milk/milkshakes

17.Fruit tinned in syrup

18.Fried food

19.Frozen yoghurt

20.Fruit juice (except tomato juice and unsweetened blackcurrant juice)

21.Glucose

22.High fat crackers

23.Honey

24.Hot chips

25.Ice cream

26.Jam

27.Marmalade

28.Mayonnaise

29.Muesli bars

30 Muffins

31.Nuts roasted in fat or oil

32.Pastries

33.Pies

34.Popcorn with butter or oil

35.Quiches

36.Reduced cream

37.Regular luncheon sausage

38.Regular powdered drinks

39.Regular salami

40.Regular sausages

41.Regular soft drinks

42.Fruit rollups

43.Sour cream

44.Sugar (added to anything including drinks, baking, cooking etc.)

45.Sweets/lollies

46.Syrups such as golden syrup, treacle, maple syrup

47.Toasted muesli and any other breakfast cereal with more than 15g sugar per 100g cereal

48.Whole milk