The chairman of the National Obesity Forum has condemned the introduction of a gut-busting breakfast butty by Morrisons in Dumbarton.

The Glasgow Road store has launched the Builder’s Big Breakfast Butty, its biggest breakfast sandwich ever, which weighs three quarters of a kilo and is four inches deep.

The mammoth serving contains two rashers of back bacon, two potato scones, two pork sausages, baked beans, mushrooms, fried egg and grilled tomato.

But Tam Fry, chairman and spokesman of the National Obesity Forum, slammed the supermarket for going against the push towards healthy eating.

He told the Reporter: “Morrisons is quite irresponsible. It will plead that this is what its customers want, but it may actually be contributing towards their ill health.

“The butty is well over the 400 calories recommended for any breakfast. If Morrisons supplied a bag so that purchasers could cut the bap in two and eat half for lunch, I would be less horrified.

“They won’t, of course, and their digestive system will suffer for the rest of the morning.”