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Salt Awareness Week 2020

Written by our nutritionists, our latest blogs for Salt Awareness Week cover hidden salt, policy, salt reduction in the UK to date, and the role chefs can play. Thanks to Food ActiveNetwork Health Digest, Royal Society of Public Health and Sustainable Restaurant Association!

Please don't turn vegan food into junk food

It wasn’t long ago that, for many, going vegan seemed both limiting and difficult. While their carnivorous and vegetarian friends were spoiled for choice with supermarket shelves full of indulgent snacks and pre-prepared meals, plus no end of... read more

 

On salt, ethical veganism, and the challenges of finding healthy food

On a rainy evening in January 2014, I decided to watch a documentary that changed my life forever. The documentary was “Vegucated” and it explained, among other things, how animals are kept in factory farms and killed for their meat. Some of the images shown were... read more

 

Playing Hide and Seek with Salt this Salt Awareness Week 

Very few of us consider the effect a high salt diet has on our health, most likely because it doesn’t manifest in quite the same way as sugar or fat, whereby excess consumption is visibly and quickly seen through... read more 

 

The History of Salt Reduction in the UK  

The UK’s world-leading salt reduction programme began in the early 1990s when the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food & Nutrition Policy (COMA)(1) advised that the UK
population was eating too much salt and should gradually reduce from 9g to 6g/day.(2) Responsibility for salt reduction policy was given to... read more

 

Salt Awareness Week 2020 

Salt Awareness Week is our chance to capture the public, government and food industry’s attention and raise awareness of the damaging impact salt has on health. Last year, we drew attention to salt levels in children’s meals finding... read more

 

Less Salt, More Flavour! 

Next week sees the start of Salt Awareness Week, an annual campaign aimed at, you guessed it, raising awareness about our salt consumption and why we have a problem on our hands, or rather our hearts... read more

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