I assumed it was a shitty comparison where they compared a whole load to a bag of crisps… But no, it’s one slice! That’s pretty shocking.
For clarity, crisps manufacturers have been developing “saltier” salt so that crisps now contain less salt without the taste difference.
It’s loads for sure, about 75% of sodium intake comes from processed foods and bread is right up there – around 8 or 9% of total sodium but if you look at all the animal products people consume on average it’s around 30% of total sodium intake.
> Government guidelines advise that bread should contain at **most 1.01g per 100g**. However, Action on Salt found that the **Hovis granary loaf has 1.28g per 100g** and the same manufacturer’s **seeded bread had 1.24g per 100g**,
> while **Marks and Spencer’s Thick White Super Soft Loaf had an unusually high salt content among white breads studied – 1.03g per 100g**.
> **M&S also produce a wholemeal loaf with a lot of salt – its M&S The Bakery Soft Golden Wholemeal Farmhouse Loaf contains 1.03g per 100g**.
Either the amounts for M&S breads are incorrect here or they are talking out of their backsides.
Edit: after checking u/Overthrow_Capitalism ‘s link, it is higher than other brand’s white loaves, the article just fails to provide comparative numbers from them.
Well that’s to be expected, I would be quite surprised to see any crisps in my sliced bread.
We make our own bread at home, one teaspoon in a whole loaf is all you need.
Don’t forget about the sugar! So many savoury foods have refined sugar in now, even uncomplicated flavours of crisp like salt and pepper. Ridiculous.
This is why I eat cake instead. Much less salt.
Gave up bread 8 days ago, already feel better, even more glad to have done so now.
This sounds like the best thing since sliced bread. Oh wait…
The demonisation of salt is based to bad science. Salt does not cause hypertension and is not bad for you, something instructs your kidneys to hold on to salt , high insulin levels.
The issue is that salt is absolutely necessary in baking bead.
There is little way of getting less than 1.5-1g salt / 100g
For crisps it’s just flavour, the fried potato disks are just carriers for salt and other flavours to your mouth
That would explain why sliced bread is so delicious.
a lot of crisps actually have surprisingly little salt
I have started calorie counting to shift some timber. I found out just how bad bread is…for salt and calories. It’s actually easier just to quit the stuff entirely to hit your goals
Buying a bread maker has been one of the best purchases I have made in my life. It’s easy to use and makes amazing bread.
Surprised health campaigners haven’t called for a bread tax, because they’ll talk about anything other than weight loss requiring personal responsibility
Not surprised. Most chemists in the UK sell several different varieties of laxatives. Bread is one of the main culprits why laxatives sell so well.
Please keep that in mind while you’re sat on the bog, staring at your knees and trying to grow a tail.
Would taking the salt out reduce it’s shelf life?
Considering the salt limit is 6g a day, two slices of bread at just under 1g of salt seems kind of fine?If it’s one of three meals? If I have the suggested serving of peanut butter on both slices of my regular bread that’d be 1.1g leaving 4.9g for the rest of the day. Honestly I’m suprised the salt in a walker’s packet is only 0.34g.
Last time I checked salt is an essential nutrient and not a health concern. If you want to be healthy swap the bread and the crisps for a banana and some broccoli
Crisps are surprisingly not that high in salt in fact some are fairly low. I guess people expect them to be terribly high. Soy sauce that’s the worst I used to use loads of that but have cut back.
Sad when the guardian resorts to click bait nonsense, but not surprising.
That’s an absolutely standard amount of salt for bread per 100g as any baker will tell you, there’s nothing special about supermarket bread, the article is pure bollocks in making it seems like there’s some conspiracy around supermarket or sliced bread. The differences they found aren’t even significant 0.25g extra per hundred grams is nothing and it’ll make f all difference in the end.
The bigger point being skimmed over here should be that (for many other reasons as well aside from salt) you shouldn’t eat an entire f’ing loaf of bread in a day regularly and you’ll be perfectly fine.
Should there be lower salt bread options for people with special dietary needs? Absolutely. The rest is bollocks.
wait till you see how much real salty butter i put on it.
Salt is a vital part of the baking process for bread and for the correct formation of the gluten. There isn’t much you can do about reducing it unless you want an unrisen, loose loaf that can’t hold the CO2 it needs to actually be bread.
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I assumed it was a shitty comparison where they compared a whole load to a bag of crisps… But no, it’s one slice! That’s pretty shocking.
For clarity, crisps manufacturers have been developing “saltier” salt so that crisps now contain less salt without the taste difference.
It’s loads for sure, about 75% of sodium intake comes from processed foods and bread is right up there – around 8 or 9% of total sodium but if you look at all the animal products people consume on average it’s around 30% of total sodium intake.
> Government guidelines advise that bread should contain at **most 1.01g per 100g**. However, Action on Salt found that the **Hovis granary loaf has 1.28g per 100g** and the same manufacturer’s **seeded bread had 1.24g per 100g**,
> while **Marks and Spencer’s Thick White Super Soft Loaf had an unusually high salt content among white breads studied – 1.03g per 100g**.
> **M&S also produce a wholemeal loaf with a lot of salt – its M&S The Bakery Soft Golden Wholemeal Farmhouse Loaf contains 1.03g per 100g**.
Either the amounts for M&S breads are incorrect here or they are talking out of their backsides.
Edit: after checking u/Overthrow_Capitalism ‘s link, it is higher than other brand’s white loaves, the article just fails to provide comparative numbers from them.
Well that’s to be expected, I would be quite surprised to see any crisps in my sliced bread.
We make our own bread at home, one teaspoon in a whole loaf is all you need.
Don’t forget about the sugar! So many savoury foods have refined sugar in now, even uncomplicated flavours of crisp like salt and pepper. Ridiculous.
This is why I eat cake instead. Much less salt.
Gave up bread 8 days ago, already feel better, even more glad to have done so now.
This sounds like the best thing since sliced bread. Oh wait…
The demonisation of salt is based to bad science. Salt does not cause hypertension and is not bad for you, something instructs your kidneys to hold on to salt , high insulin levels.
The issue is that salt is absolutely necessary in baking bead.
There is little way of getting less than 1.5-1g salt / 100g
For crisps it’s just flavour, the fried potato disks are just carriers for salt and other flavours to your mouth
That would explain why sliced bread is so delicious.
a lot of crisps actually have surprisingly little salt
I have started calorie counting to shift some timber. I found out just how bad bread is…for salt and calories. It’s actually easier just to quit the stuff entirely to hit your goals
Most bread in the U.K. is made using the [Chorleywood bread process](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process?wprov=sfti1). It has numerous additives, petrochemicals and salt.
Buying a bread maker has been one of the best purchases I have made in my life. It’s easy to use and makes amazing bread.
Surprised health campaigners haven’t called for a bread tax, because they’ll talk about anything other than weight loss requiring personal responsibility
Not surprised. Most chemists in the UK sell several different varieties of laxatives. Bread is one of the main culprits why laxatives sell so well.
Please keep that in mind while you’re sat on the bog, staring at your knees and trying to grow a tail.
Would taking the salt out reduce it’s shelf life?
Considering the salt limit is 6g a day, two slices of bread at just under 1g of salt seems kind of fine?If it’s one of three meals? If I have the suggested serving of peanut butter on both slices of my regular bread that’d be 1.1g leaving 4.9g for the rest of the day. Honestly I’m suprised the salt in a walker’s packet is only 0.34g.
Last time I checked salt is an essential nutrient and not a health concern. If you want to be healthy swap the bread and the crisps for a banana and some broccoli
Crisps are surprisingly not that high in salt in fact some are fairly low. I guess people expect them to be terribly high. Soy sauce that’s the worst I used to use loads of that but have cut back.
Sad when the guardian resorts to click bait nonsense, but not surprising.
That’s an absolutely standard amount of salt for bread per 100g as any baker will tell you, there’s nothing special about supermarket bread, the article is pure bollocks in making it seems like there’s some conspiracy around supermarket or sliced bread. The differences they found aren’t even significant 0.25g extra per hundred grams is nothing and it’ll make f all difference in the end.
The bigger point being skimmed over here should be that (for many other reasons as well aside from salt) you shouldn’t eat an entire f’ing loaf of bread in a day regularly and you’ll be perfectly fine.
Should there be lower salt bread options for people with special dietary needs? Absolutely. The rest is bollocks.
wait till you see how much real salty butter i put on it.
Salt is a vital part of the baking process for bread and for the correct formation of the gluten. There isn’t much you can do about reducing it unless you want an unrisen, loose loaf that can’t hold the CO2 it needs to actually be bread.