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Sunday, July 06, 2008

Jamie Oliver is being criticised over the level of salt in his tomato sauce.

Jamie Oliver's Pasta Sauce is too salty
Article in the Guardian


The Guardian reports that, "Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at St George's Hospital in south London, said he was shocked by the figures. MacGregor, who chairs Consensus Action on Salt and Health, said Oliver's tomato, olive and garlic sauce contained 20% more salt than Atlantic seawater."

I'm disappointed that Jamie has not ensured that the sauces with his name on are not lower in salt than other sauces. - I've just been looking on the internet and found a very low salt tomato sauce on this webpage: http://www.westcountryspice.com/products.htm

Here is why you need to protect your child from salt and salty food:
Children and Obesity

Salt levels listed in the Guardian article:

"Jamie Oliver's pasta sauce 3g/100g

Kelloggs cornflakes 1.75g/100g

Sharwood's Tikka Masala Cooking Sauce 1.65g/100g

Heinz baked beans 1.3g/100g

Hovis Farmhouse white loaf 1.25g/100g

Goodfella's Cheesy Pizza 1.1g/100g

Bernard Matthews Turkey Twizzler 0.925g/100g (new recipe) or 1.24g/100g (old recipe)

McDonald's Big Mac 0.9g/100g

Covent Garden Food Co. plum tomato and marscapone soup 0.4g/100g"

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, angina, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!