Is it just me or have the 'health fascists' turned Supermarket food into bland, tasteless mush?
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Caporegime
Because it’s niceThen why do you keep doing it? LMAO
Buy a 5kg tub of MSG and add it to everything
if it's good enough for papa Weissman, it's good enough for me!
Good, you might have some flavour and nutrients that way.
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Uncle Roger approves of MSG.
Yeah definitely this. We can't eat most supermarket fresh soup because they're so salty. I seem to recall M&S ones being particularly bad, practically inedible. And I really like salt and cook probably with a bit too much if I'm completely honest.
If there's one thing that is definitely not lacking salt these days it's pre-prepared ready meals! OP should check their salt intake, perhaps learn how to cook with fresh ingredients. A touch of seasoning goes a lot further on freshly made sauces etc. than in a microwave meal that was blended together 6 weeks ago, frozen, and ferried across the country to sit in a supermarket fridge for a week before you take it home
Soldato
Vesta are still making curries? I remember my Mum bringing one home in the mid 1970s and it was basically our first experience of spices.I steer away from the ready made stuff .... criminal levels of salt and sugar in most of it in an attempt to give it a bit of taste, this ones even got Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'-Ribonucleotides). YUK!
coincidentally, yesterday, the sugar tax results analysis were in
so - obscure/tenuous 6th level girl minor reduction in obesity, other than that no reduction, they thought better advertising had increased consumption offsetting calorie reductions,
maybe those girls were just more influenced by body image messages from social media.
they haven't found any reduction in dental issues either.
so - obscure/tenuous 6th level girl minor reduction in obesity, other than that no reduction, they thought better advertising had increased consumption offsetting calorie reductions,
maybe those girls were just more influenced by body image messages from social media.
they haven't found any reduction in dental issues either.
Nothing wrong with MSG, it's a complete old wive's tale that it's bad for you.Buy a 5kg tub of MSG and add it to everything
Tomatoes are full of it, it naturally occurs in loads of things. It's better for your than the Sodium Chloride that people sprinkle all over their food.
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Oh yes. I also remember the chop suey one with crispy noodles as a kid, seemed quite exotic at the time.
£300 million a year in revenue to help pay for the consequences of our increasingly obese population though, so a job well done.
Caporegime
That's not really an accurate summation of the study: there was nothing particularly tenuous or obscure about the change that they found, and they were only looking at reception and year 6 so the study, of course, says nothing about changes outside that. That study, btw, is also not "the" results analysis, it's just one study.
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58% of your daily intake of salt Jesus Christ!I steer away from the ready made stuff .... criminal levels of salt and sugar in most of it in an attempt to give it a bit of taste, this ones even got Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'-Ribonucleotides). YUK!
A quick browse on Tesco and Ocado indicates most of them come in at 25% or less of daily max per portion. Same with ready meals. Is that "incredibly salty"? Maybe a bit on the high side if you aren't keeping tabs on what else you eat or you like to eat the whole pot, but doesn't seem "incredibly salty" to me.
Caporegime
Are those "portions" the amount you're likely to actually eat? Suggested portions are often a joke.
The UK's recommended salt intake is probably set too low anyway. It's set at 2.4g of sodium when more recent research points to low, as well as high, levels of sodium being harmful and a recent meta analysis suggesting the best health outcomes comes at a range of 2,645–4,945 mg/day - that's up to twice the UK guidance.
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I like to wake up in the morning and start my day with a nice big line of sodium to snort.
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IMO only pie and mash requires ridiculous amounts of salt, pepper and vinegar to make it almost edible.
Awaits the incoming Melt comment
Once you take out the additives that trips the brain, most foods seem to taste boring.
I use MSG more than salt in my cooking now and it gets the important approval from SWMBO.
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Seems reasonable. 300g soup/half the container, a whole ready meal for one, etc.
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Homemade soup is the best. Just get a stick blender if you don’t have a soup maker to blitz soup.