Blogs
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 Active, Network 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