Harrison Carter, co-chair of the British Medical Association’s students committee, called for nutrition information to be an “integral part of a medical education and respected for the importance it has towards future patient care.

“Nutrition hasn’t been treated as an important science within medical education, Carter told The Daily Telegraph, despite that the fact it makes up an ever increasing "burden of disease" within the NHS.

“For particular subsets of patients in hospitals, such as those who are trying to recover from surgery, one of the things that has to be optimised in their nutrition," he said.

“Yet we know from talking to medical students that they feel under-prepared to be able to manage patients nutrition in the hospital setting.”