Petition · past parliament
Do not mandate that restaurants include calorie labelling on menus.
Rejected
15 signatures
What the petition asks
Information about a meal's nutritional value on the menu will be significantly more useful in helping people pick more nutritious options. Macdonalds is an example of how showing calories in fast food does not prevent people consuming it, but can stop those with eating disorders from eating at all.
Showing the number of calories a meal has on the menu will impact people struggling with eating disorders, and will be detrimental to their recovery. According to the eating disorder charity Beat, roughly 1.25 million people in the UK suffer from an eating disorder. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder, and only 46% of people with anorexia fully recover. Encouaging calorie counting is a dangerous path, especially when our mental health survices are so underfunded.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 28 Jul 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 3 Aug 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
15
Status
Rejected
Rejected
3 Aug 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.