Vegetarian sausages and burgers as salty as up to five bags of
Contributed by VeggieGirl
Many parents regard them as the healthy alternative, but some leading
brands of vegetarian burgers and sausages contain higher levels of
salt than their meat equivalents.
Just two sausages from one company would provide virtually the entire
day's salt ration for an adult and too much for a child.
To coincide with National Vegetarian Week, which begins today,
researchers from Consensus Action on Salt and Health analysed a
selection of meat-free products
...
For example, a Linda McCartney Vegetarian Sausage had 38 per cent more
than an equivalent Quorn product.
Two Cauldron vegetarian Lincolnshire sausages contain 2g of salt, some
40 per cent more than the 1.2g found in two Asda Meat Free
Lincolnshire Sausages.
The saltiest burgers in the survey were Fry's Vegetarian Traditional
Burgers and Fry's Vegetarian Spiced Burgers, each with a salt reading
of 1.8g. This level was six times higher than the equivalent Asda meat
burger.
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SEE ALSO: Veggie burgers 'just as salty' as meat ones
Approved by andyba on June 17,2008 | 08:38:56
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