CONSUMERS are being encouraged to ditch their doughnuts in a healthy eating initiative.

Trading standards officers in North Yorkshire are joining forces with supermarkets to promote a series of in-store healthy eating exhibitions.

The displays advise on how to get the most out of the nutritional information displayed on packaged foods and give helpful advice on the optimum level of salt to consume.

Councillor John Fort, the county's executive member for trading standards, said: "It is important that the exhibitions are seen by as many people as possible and therefore placing them in supermarkets and community resource centres is ideal."

Displays will be staged at Morrisons, in Malton, from June 20; Somerfield, in Northallerton, from June 27; Waitrose, in Harrogate, from July 4; Sainsbury, in Scarborough, from July 11; Sainsbury, in Ripon, from July 25; Booths, in Settle, from August 1; and Morrisons, in Boroughbridge, from September 19.

The exhibition will be at Colburn community resource centre, from July 18, and Ripon community resource centre, from August 15.