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Action on Salt

Popcorn Survey Media Coverage

Published:

TV
Good Morning Britain

Radio
BBC Radio Leicester
BCB Radio Drive Show
Sky News Radio (More than 280 stations make up the network, including Absolute Radio, Capital, Classic, Heart, Magic, LBC, Smooth and talkSPORT)

National Newspapers:
Daily Mail - ‘Cinema popcorn with 5 days’ worth of sugar’, page 29
Daily Mirror – ‘Film popcorn in sugar alert,’ page 20
Metro – 'Fancy some popcorn? It could blow a healthy diet’, page 13

Online:
BreakingNews.ie - How healthy is popcorn *really*?
BT - Warning over ‘unhealthy’ popcorn
Daily Mail - The cinema popcorn with five days' worth of sugar: Other packs can contain almost an entire days salt consumption
Food Manufacturer - Lobbyists: Popcorn’s ‘health’ claims ‘misleading’
Food World News - Cinema popcorn salt sugar: 30 teaspoons of sugar per pack or entire recommended intake for UK moviegoers
Herald – Bad news for popcorn lovers…
Irish Examiner - How healthy is popcorn *really*?
Mirror - Cinema popcorn has more than 30 teaspoons of sugar and should carry health warning experts say
Perfect Science - Certain popcorn brands having extremely high levels of salt and sugar
Sunday World - Popcorn health myths busted
Times of Malta - Warning over ‘unhealthy’ cinema popcorn in the UK
Telegraph - How much salt and sugar does cinema popcorn contain?

Regional: 
Lancashire Telegraph – East Lancs cinema popcorn slammed for salt levels
Western Daily Press - Popcorn is not the healthy snack that many people believe it to be
Blackpool Gazette - Popcorn 'not such a healthy snack' Article also featured in: 
Chorley Guardian 
Fleetwood Today
Garstang Today
Lancashire Evening Post 
Longridge Today
Lytham Today
St Helen's Today
Wigan Today

 

 

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