Did you all know just how much salt is in a slice of bread and a tin of soup?

[Zog]

...because I didn't and I was when I checked. It's recommended 4-6 year olds don't eat more than 3g of salt per day. Two slices of bread and half a tin of soup would take them to 2.5g!

Franny - i thught a teaspoon was 5g?

I think I am talking about the sodium content Katy - sorry if I have got muddled up

Sorry I see now you were listing salt content in bread earlier, rather than sodium content, and I have listed sodium content, rather than salt content

I was just well chuffed cos that meant my H/M bread was .2g a slice.......shame it isn't

I am totally confused now having attempted simple maths too early in the morning, and will withdraw gracefully

I very rarely use salt when cooking. LOL at lucyellensmum "which when i thought about this surprised me cos im a shit cook". That's me all over, but I'd rather DDs get fresh food that's good for them than stuff that tastes a bit better but is full of rubbish. Is that mean?

Don't get me wrong - they get fun stuff sometimes. I'm not that cruel!

demonaid, just done some sums....

carton of covent garden soup is 600g, so if 100g contains 0.4g then half a carton would give you 1.2g of salt.

If you then give the DC 2 rounds of toast with a bowl of soup (1 slice contains .5g) then you're up to 2.2g of salt (that's if you don't put butter containing salt on the bread).

So you're well over the half way mark for salt reccomendations with just a bowl of 'healthy' soup and some toast.

Quite scary really.

Have copied and pasted salt intake recommendations for children

In the UK , SACN (Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition), in 2003 set up target levels of salt intake for children [16] (Table 1). These recommendations are not ideal, and are far higher than what a child's maximum intake should be to meet their physiological requirements, but due to children's current high salt intake are based on what is feasible, and what is achievable.

Table 1. SACN recommendations for children

Age
Target Average Salt Intake (g/day)

0-6 months

We make our own bread and we've started using Lo-Salt which is 40% lower in sodium that ordinary salt. It tastes ok to me.

professorplum, yes please, could you post the recipe for home made baked beans.

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