SUPERMARKETS and trading standards officers have joined forces to promote healthy eating.

Exhibitions giving nutritional advice to shoppers are being set up in stores across North Yorkshire.

The county council displays will explain information given on food packaging.

They will also give advice on the optimum level of salt for people to have in their diets.

Councillor John Fort said: "The exhibitions are a great way to help residents to learn more about food nutrition, which is at the heart of healthy lifestyles.

"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."

The initiative follows work carried out by the Food Standards Agency. Booths, Leeds Co-op, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Somerfield and Waitrose have agreed to host the exhibition.