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Dear Subscriber,
This week the group CASH, Consensus Action on Salt &
Health, organized in the UK for the 7th time a Salt
Awareness Week from January 29 to February 1. If media
attention is any measure of success of raising this issue,
they have been successful.
Why pay attention to Salt?
Although disputed by some, it is estimated that a
reduction in the salt consumption of 3 g/day would reduce
strokes by 13% and ischemic heart disease (IHD) by 10%. For
a country like the UK a 3g/day reduction is estimated to
prevent 7800 stroke death and 11.500 IHD death. For
comparison, the recommended daily salt intake for an adult in the UK is 6g/day.
Still, this nutritional topic plays mainly in the UK,
although this year saw for the first time a Salt Awareness
week in Australia.
The focus in this year's Salt awareness week was on sweet
snacks, since these products often are not recognized as
containing potentially large amounts of salt. Interestingly,
I came across a table where the content of various sweet
products was expressed in the equivalent number of chips
packages. Obviously, consumers recognize potato chips as a salt
containing product...
These foods have the same amount
of salt as … |
… this many packets of ready salted crisps
(34.5 g) |
1 bowl cornflakes
1 slice chocolate sponge cake
1 American muffin
1 mug hot chocolate
2 digestive biscuits
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1
(0.5 g salt) |
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1 slice toast buttered + marmite
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2
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2
sausages
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3
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1 bowl soup + 1 slice of bread
½ deep pan supermarket pepperoni pizza |
4
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1 frankfurter in bread roll with tomato ketchup
½ tin baked beans + 2 slices toast buttered
½ deep pan supermarket cheese pizza |
5
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1 All Day Breakfast sandwich
1 Pot noodle |
6
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Elsewhere,
the amount of salt in french fries in the famous British
Fish and Chips shops was tested, it was found that there
was a huge variation. Consumers were encouraged to ask for
less salt on their french fries.
In our book section we present a book
"Reducing Salt in Foods; practical strategies" that can help
you reduce the salt content in many products. It does
contain an entire chapter on reduction of salt in savory
snacks.
Once the Salt awareness week has ended, people in the UK
need to wait only a few days and they can focus on something
better: French Fries, or Chips as they would say in the UK:
from 11 to 17 February it is Chipweek!
Enjoy reading,
Paul van Eijck
Healthy Snacking: Future Trends & New Insights
The majority (61%) of European and US consumers have sought to improve the healthiness of their snacking in 2007. After all, snacking, despite its historically bad reputation and negative health connotations, remains an important component of consumers' daily eating and drinking
behaviours. It is therefore crucial to understand what influences shoppers' choices for this growing occasion
Read more...
More Market Research Reports
Reducing salt in foods: Practical strategies
Consumers are increasingly looking to reduce their salt intake, making salt reduction a priority for food manufacturers. This is not straightforward, though, as salt plays an important role in food preservation, taste and processability. Written by a team of international experts, Reducing salt in foods provides a unique review of current knowledge in this field.
Read more...
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Mostly we feature in this newsletter information on potato
chips and French Fries. Nevertheless, we do cover also
products like dehydrated potato products like potato flakes,
potato granules and potato starch, but since these products
get less media attention, you see them here less often. This
week's featured article is about food starch. Flexnews
published an excerpt from a market research report "Strategic
Analysis of the European Food Starch Market" from Frost and
Sullivan. Even though it is only an excerpt, it contains lot
of interesting information. Let me know if you want to full
report, but I must warn you that it has a hefty price tag.
Keep that in mind and you may actually like
this free
excerpt by Flexnews even better!
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based EUROPLANT Pflanzenzucht GmbH is a leading
company in plant breeding. Europlant provides the
global market with quality seed potatoes. Europlant's
potato range
consists of more than 80 registered potato varieties
for all marketing purposes and of all maturity
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Snack Alliance |
United States |
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Snack Alliance, Inc. is a
North American snack food company with manufacturing
facilities in Hermiston (Oregon), Bristol (Virginia)
and Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada.
Snack Alliance product lines include potato
chips, tortilla chips, cheese snacks, corn chips,
popcorn, and several other products. Snack Alliance
brands include Rice Works Rice Chips, Sports Bar
Snacks, Thin and Crispy, Granny Goose, Clover Club,
Laura Scudder's and Terry's Classic Snacks. Snack
Alliance also produces private label products and
performs contract manufacturing.
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