New Design of Salt shakers 'to cut salt intake'

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Salt shakers with fewer holes have been sent to fish and chip shops in an attempt to curb salt consumption.

West Norfolk Council spent about £450 sending 200 shakers, which have only four holes, to 39 shops in the area.

It said it hoped the scheme would help residents limit their salt intake to the guideline maximum of 6g a day.

A spokesman for the National Federation of Fish Friers called the scheme a "gimmick" and said customers would just shake the containers more.
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Hilarious waste of money :D

Sauce

As a family we don't have that much salt (or try not to), we always buy that Lo-Salt, tastes the same but has less 66% sodium.
 
pmbuzz said:
we always buy that Lo-Salt, tastes the same but has less 66% sodium.
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this seems pointlessd to me.

Lo-Salt has lower sodium, but more potassium all potassium contains the radioactive beta-gamma emitter potassium-40, so its radiooactive (admittedly not to the extent that will cause any issues), but they have to add so much other stuff to it to make it taste more like sodium salt. With all of this going on, is it really healthier than natural, time tested sodium salt?

To me, the best solution is just to reduce the intake of sodium salt, not tank loads of potassium salt into your food.

We dont even really know the longer term effects of potassium salt - hypertension (high-blood pressure) and the other diseases associated with sodium salt could be better than those of long term potassium salt.

Each to their own, but never got the point of lo Salt when all that is replaced is the metal counter ion, and loads of other stuff is added :/
 
Customers will also complain more, not to the council but to whoever is working in the chip shop at the time. The four holes will probably be blocked most of the time.
 
AS with sooooo many things or government constantly gives us bad advice as to whats healthy and whats not. Salt, is needed, we have to much salt because all the premade meals we eat has far to much in. Rather than persaude companies not to make awful quality microwave type meals, the government is scaring everyone into thinking salt and fat are bad.

If you cook all your food out of things without tonnes of excess salt added in the first place, theres nothing wrong with putting salt on food you want to put salt on.

Of course, we won't see a government give anyone advice that would include not buying premade meals, and not eating highly refined carbs, as so many companies produce both that we're at the point that we rely on those types of foods now.
 
You're eating deep fried fish and chips and you're worried about your salt intake for that meal?

Ha ha ha, it amazes me.
I've never worried about my salt intake, and tbh I don't eat a lot of it anyway. The people who have salt in sandwiches and on everything are wierd but in normal terms I don't think we should worry that much people have been eating salt for decades with no problems. Its the sort of food people are eating, processed crap maybe the council should target that as it is probably the main problem. Teach people how to cook?
 
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What really annoys me is when I cook something from scratch and then someone tells me not to add any salt because "it's unhealthy". I don't eat a lot of processed foods and decent food NEEDS seasoning.

Burnsy
 
Greenlizard0 said:
I don't really taste any difference, and I heavily season it with other things. I probably eat far too much black pepper lol.
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Then you're either not seasoning it properly or you have no sense of taste. Seasoning is one of the most important things in cooking.

Burnsy
 
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Burnsy2023 said:
Then you're either not seasoning it properly or you have no sense of taste. Seasoning is one of the most important things in cooking.

Burnsy
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Thanks for your opinion but my food turns out well; the number of people who I have cooked for from scratch seem to very much enjoy it, to my face and behind my back.

Salt's not as necessary as people think for cooking though a lot of people are overly used to it as it's something that's been done for years. E.g. the article today in the Times warns of lowering salt in meat just incase botulism cases rise.

Season something with what you want, there are always alternatives it's not improper to do it without salt.
 
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