YEEUUCH! That was the verdict of young Preston testers who gave the big thumbs-down to chocolate flavoured carrots and pizza flavoured sweetcorn.

Wacky Veg is the latest from Iceland frozen food bosses who say flavoured veggies such as cheese and onion cauliflower and baked-bean-tasting peas will encourage children to eat their greens. But our guinea pigs at Woodlands School on Ribbleton Avenue were less than impressed.

The panel were put off straight away by the sight of carrots swimming in a chocolate sauce, and these were roundly rejected.

Young Amy Horgan said the food looked disgusting but admitted she was surprised that the taste was 'not too bad actually'.

Little Leon Iddon struggled to swallow his cheese and onion cauliflower. He said: "If we had this for school dinner every day I'd go home to eat!"

And James Hillyard said the cauli tasted more like crisps.

Most agreed that the pizza flavoured sweetcorn was the best of a bad bunch as it resembled 'a spicy tomato soup'.

The youngsters preferred the real thing to the flavoured versions, but brave Sarah Halstead said she would not mind a change every so often.

All the tasters decided their parents would turn their nose up at trying Wacky Veg themselves.

School cook Maureen Edwards who prepared the grub said: "The smell is very off-putting. Many children refuse to have veg with their dinner, but there'd be lots of waste if we served this every day."

Luckily, Iceland turned down other curious combinations of Bubble Gum Broccoli, Prawn Cocktail Cauliflower and Toffee Apple Sweetcorn!

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