Date published: 2007/07/05
The BBC says:
Pre-packed sandwiches may contain as much salt as several bags of crisps, a study suggests. The health lobby group Cash looked at 140 sandwiches on sale and found over 40% had 2g or more of salt - or a third of an adult's recommended daily intake.
The "All Day Breakfast" variety were the worst offenders, but cheese and ham as well as chicken salad also featured.
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The British Sandwich Association was critical of the findings."Sandwiches involve the assembly of ingredients," said Jim Winship, director of the organisation.
"The fact is that the salt is already in the ingredients - e.g. bacon or ham - so if consumers choose a sandwich containing these they are bound to have a higher salt content."
But he stressed that on average, the sandwiches surveyed had 2g of salt - or a third of the recommended daily intake - and that these levels were not unreasonable.
Cash admitted that, given a sandwich was often the main constituent of one of three meals in the day, containing a third of the recommended daily intake of salt was not necessarily a problem.
"But it's often combined with other things," says Jo Butten, the group's nutritionist.
"Once you have had a packet of crisps with your sandwich and finished off with some biscuits, you may well have gone over your limit."
What a desperately sad group Cash is, if this is the best they can come up with. They seem to be just one of the zillions of academic middle class special interest pressure groups with nothing to offer the country. Of course the hysteria is about salt today, but they (and the others) will move onto something else tomorrow.
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