food labels

[Morrisonker]

Yes, I've been label watching today...

Actually inspired by an Eddie Izzard sketch.  I'm looking at a mild salsa dip and apparently it has 0.8g of Sodium per 100g.  Is that good?  What would be considered a high level of sodium and what would be a low level?

[kick3m0n]

I'd need to double check but I think 3g of salt is the max daily intake for an adult.  3g of salt equates to approx. 1.5 g of sodium.  Therefore if you ate 100g of salsa dip, you'd have already had half your daily intake of sodium.    Tonnes of foods are high in salt/sodium.....check out brown bread for example.  Few slices of toast with slightly salted butter and you've had about 3 days salt intake.   I started looking much mroe carefully when trying to feed my baby boy, as a childs salt/sodium intake is obviously supposed to be as low as possible.  Lots of manufacturers are now giving extra info on their packaging.  eg some foods will categorise their salt levels as High or Low etc (have seent hsi on Hovis brown bread).   Co-op own brands do this quite well, but lots of others others do too.

[morg_monster]

I read that cornflakes are actually as salty as seawater... my uncle's doctor told him to pour a bowl of cornflakes with milk, leave it for a while, then sieve out the cornflakes and drink the milk - apparently it tastes disgusting.  I haven't tried it though...