The Food Commission, which is the U

The Food Commission, which is the UK’s leading independent watchdog on food issues, studied the ingredients in white bread, crisps, baked bean and canned tomato soup, comparing the salt content in 1978 with equivalent products selling today. Among the most shocking of their findings was the discovery that salt in crisps has almost doubled since 1978, from an average of 540 mg per 100 g to 1050 mg per 100 g. In the rest, there was little improvement, despite industry and government claims that salt has been cut in these processed foods.