CASH have a new salt in food warning out today just to remind us that they are still pissing tax money up the wall eating too much salt will lead to wailing, gnashing of teeth and death or something similarly biblical :

Including too many ready-made items in a Sunday roast could lead to excessive salt intake, says research from a health charity.

In a survey of 600 supermarket products, Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) found that unnecessary amounts of salt are being hidden in certain items of pre-prepared food.

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Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) said a family Sunday roast can be a “balanced and healthy” meal.

But it found that choosing all ready-made products for a typical Sunday lunch – meat, vegetables and condiments – could result in nearly 10 grams of salt being consumed.

Now, when I read something like that last part, I am always suspicious of terms like ” could result ..” and, sure enough this one turns out to be a load of old bollocks and laughably so when you look at the CASH press release :

Combined, the highest available products for a typical ‘roast beef Sunday lunch’ contained nearly TEN grams of salt (9.61g) [Ref 3], 160% of an adult’s daily maximum recommendation.

OK, so they added up the saltiest things they found in the survey to make up the killer dinner.

And, what exactly is in that coronary inducing meal?

The saltiest products in a typical Roast Beef Sunday lunch [Ref 3]:

1. Roast Beef – ASDA Chosen By You Peppered Beef Brisket Joint with Mustard & Pepper Stuffing (2.3g per 212..5g portion)
2. English Mustard – Tesco/Morrisons English Mustard (0.5g per  5g portion)
3. Yorkshire Pudding – Aunt Bessie’s 6 Delicious Large Yorkshire Puddings (0.5g per 27.5g portion)
4. Stuffing* – Marks & Spencer Buttered Onion & Herb Breadcrumb Stuffing (1.10g per 60g portion)
5. Gravy – Morrisons Beef Gravy (1.3 per 125g portion)
6. Roast Potatoes– Tesco Finest Goose Fat Roast Potatoes (1.3g per 225g portion)
7. Vegetable Mash– Tesco Finest Root Vegetable Mash (1.6g per 250g portion)
8. Cabbage/Greens– Sainsbury’s Red Cabbage (1.01g per 150g portion)
9. Apple Pie – Aunt Bessie’s Scrumptious Bramley Apple Pie (0.8g per 151g portion)
10. Custard – Morrisons Ready to Serve Custard (0.3g per 212.5g portion)

*excluded from the total of 9.61g as the Asda beef already includes stuffing.

It’s becoming a little clearer now isn’t it.

Firstly, to achieve their 10g of salt Sunday dinner you first have to shop at ASDA, Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s to select your ingredients.

Then, you have to concoct an impossibly large dinner from your gathered ingredients to give you the full high blood pressure experience. The table above includes the supposed portions that you will be eating – add them up and you get a 1.4kg meal or around 3lb in old money.

Now, I am not sure about you but other than possibly a Christmas dinner, I don’t think I could shovel even half that away in one sitting without feeling ill.

So, in conclusion, you would have to fuck around for half of Saturday to get hold of your evil dinner and then stuff yourself to the gills (and more) to get the full amount of salt claimed in the article.

There is also the fact that you may enjoy your salty Sunday dinner and then eat bugger all salt for the rest of the week but that would probably be included under some new binge-salting scare that we haven’t heard of yet closely followed, no doubt, by passive-salting to describe the behaviour of evil food manufacturers and chip shop owners across the land.

I am sure it will come though, because these fuckers are will not be happy until everyone conforms to their utopia.