People Like Salt

 

I usually buy ready meals from Waitrose or Marks and Spencer. These tend to have acceptable levels of salt.

A few months ago, I bought a 'healthy' ready meal from Tesco. It was so full of salt that that was all you could taste.

Let's make no bones about it. Supermarkets adjust their level of salt to sell the maximum amount of food, not what is good for us. Waitrose and M&S tend to have a more thinking class of customer and therefore find that lower levels of salt and other additives are preferred and sell better.

So if you want to cut salt, you won't do it without imposing legal limits on products.

As to breakfast cereal, as a coeliac I have to eat gluten-free Cornflakes. I eat an organic brand, Whole Earth, which is often cheaper than Kelloggs. It has virtually no salt and tastes so much better.