Thursday 15 August 2019

Salt levels in picnic foods dangerously high, health group warns

Salt levels in picnic foods dangerously high, health group warns Action on Salt calls for compulsory, front-of-pack, nutritional labelling.

One in four savoury picnic foods contain dangerously high levels of salt and almost half are worryingly high in saturated fat, a health group has warned.

Action on Salt found that a typical picnic basket could contain more than 5g of salt, almost the recommended daily limit for an adult, which is 6g a day. Excessive salt consumption has been blamed for thousands of cases of heart disease, stroke and cancer. The Guardian

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