{"id":18018,"date":"2018-10-23T21:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/health\/vegetarian-meat-substitutes-exceeding-salt-limits\/57"},"modified":"2018-10-23T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:00:57","slug":"vegetarian-meat-substitutes-exceeding-salt-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/?p=18018","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian meat substitutes ‘exceeding salt limits’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tofu Image copyright Getty Images <\/p>\n

More than a quarter of meat-free burgers, sausages and mince tested for a study exceed maximum recommended salt levels, a campaign group has warned.<\/p>\n

A total of 28% of the 157 meat substitute products studied by Action on Salt missed the voluntary salt targets set by Public Health England.<\/p>\n

The worst offenders were saltier than Atlantic seawater, the report found.<\/p>\n

Public Health England said it had told companies the importance of meeting its voluntary targets.<\/p>\n

But Action on Salt called on PHE to take “urgent action” to do more to lower salt in the products.<\/p>\n

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Researchers said some of the foods were saltier, per 100g, than seawater in the Atlantic Ocean <\/p>\n

What are PHE’s salt targets?<\/h2>\n

Plain meat alternatives (including plain mince, pieces and fillets): 0.63g of salt per 100g Meat-free products (all meat alternative products, including sausages, burgers, bites, pies and sliced “meats”): 1.25g of salt per 100g Meat-free bacon: 1.88g of salt per 100g <\/p>\n

How the products compare<\/h2>\n

Tofurky’s Deli Slices Hickory Smoked: 3.5g of salt per 100g Tesco Meat Free Bacon Style Rashers: 3.2g of salt per 100g Tesco Meat Free Mince (least salty): 0.2g of salt per 100g Atlantic seawater: 2.5g of salt per 100g <\/p>\n

What are the recommended daily maximum salt consumption limits?<\/h2>\n

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Action on Salt chairman Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at London’s Queen Mary University, said: “Reducing salt is the most cost-effective measure to reduce the number of people dying or suffering from entirely unnecessary strokes and heart disease.”<\/p>\n

He added: “It is incomprehensible that Public Health England are not doing more to reduce the amount of salt in our food. We are again calling on PHE to take urgent action”.<\/p>\n

Prof Louis Levy, head of nutrition science at Public Health England, said salt consumption had fallen over the last decade “but there is still a long way to go, as some foods still contain too much salt”.<\/p>\n

He added: “Government has been clear with the food industry on the importance of meeting the 2017 salt targets. <\/p>\n

“Since taking over salt reduction, PHE has been collecting data on industry’s progress and we’ll report later this year as planned.”<\/p>\n

Quorn, one of the leading producers of vegetarian meat, said it had varying levels of salt in its products.<\/p>\n

Its Meat-Free Best of British Sausages contain 1.9g of salt per 100g – more than the PHE recommendation. That means eating one sausage will give you 1.1g of salt. Adults would need to eat more than six of them in a day to bust their salt allowance (not counting any other salt in foods they also eat). <\/p>\n

A spokeswoman added: “While they are higher in salt, as clearly marked on the pack, they are still low in saturated fat. <\/p>\n

“We review all our product recipes on an ongoing basis to ensure we are achieving what our consumers want in terms of taste and health credentials.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image copyright Getty Images More than a quarter of meat-free burgers, sausages and mince tested for a study exceed maximum recommended salt levels, a campaign group has warned. A total of 28% of the 157 meat substitute products studied by Action on Salt missed the voluntary salt targets set by Public Health England. The worst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[8202,8203,8204,8205,8206],"class_list":["post-18018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-meat-substitute","tag-tomatoes","tag-vegetarian-recipes-wiki","tag-vegetarianrecipes","tag-yoghurt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}