How weight loss jabs are hitting the UK’s humble spud growers

Andy Goodacre, from Grantham, Lincolnshire, says shoppers are buying fewer chips, crisps and other potato products (Picture: SWNS)

Weight-loss jabs and a focus on healthy living are killing off demand for potatoes and damaging fish and chip shop trade.

Farmers around the UK say they are facing having to ditch thousands of stored potatoes due to declining sales of the spud.

Farm owner Andy Goodacre has been left with a ‘potato mountain’ he can’t sell after seeing demand from...