WHITE bread, candies, potato chips, soft drinks and carton drinks with large doses of white sugar and chemicals are the most popular food items being sold in tuck shops.
A survey conducted by Green Power shows that tuck shops and canteens occupy an important position in a student's school life.
The study, the Green Power's first Green Consumer Survey, involved over 600 students, teachers, headmasters, parents, medical professionals and government officials.
Among the students interviewed by telephone, half said they bought food/drink from tuck shops - nearly all junk food.
Boys outnumber girls in soft drinks consumption by three to one, and noodles by two to one. Girls, on the other hand, eat four times more ice-cream than boys.
Generally speaking, boys patronise tuck shops more than girls. Lower form students do so more than their seniors, and the former have less healthy eating habits.
Those from lower-income families have less healthy eating habits.