17

May

2023

Huge and unnecessary amounts of salt in the majority of pizzas, with many getting saltier - Call for Health Minister Steve Barclay to take action

Restaurants and takeaway companies are drowning our food in salt and failing to meet the voluntary salt reduction targets as NEW research by Action on Salt, the expert research group based at Queen Mary University of London, reveals half of all pizzas sold in the UK provide a days' worth (or more) of salt per pizza.

21

Apr

2023

Call to reduce salt content in bread as three in four products are as salty as a packet of crisps in just one slice

NEW research by Action on Salt, the scientific expert group based at Queen Mary University of London, has found popular packaged sliced bread sold in UK supermarkets contain unnecessary amounts of saltiv, with some breads saltier per serve than 2x small portions of McDonald's French friesi. Salt is the major factor that raises our blood...

29

Jul

2022

Call for world's largest food companies to prioritise health after new survey exposes bad practice

Two UK health charities are calling on some of the world's largest multinational companies to urgently improve the healthiness of the products that they sell, including stepping up their efforts to reformulate their popular brands. This comes after a new snapshot survey suggests many of their products are classified as...