“Public Health England has estimated that 85% of the salt people ingest is already in food at the point of purchase and consumers only add the other 15% during cooking or at the table.”
Anecdotally, people add less salt to the food they cook themselves than is added to processed foods in the factory. If this is true, even if people do ‘top up’ salt levels in their food, they will likely still end up with less salt.
Plus there’s salt in all sorts of crazy things like breakfast cereal. If that gets reduced, I don’t think people are going to start salting their fruit loops.
“Public Health England has estimated that 85% of the salt people ingest is already in food at the point of purchase and consumers only add the other 15% during cooking or at the table.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/21/uk-needs-to-tax-salt-in-the-same-way-it-does-sugar-says-heart-charity
Anecdotally, people add less salt to the food they cook themselves than is added to processed foods in the factory. If this is true, even if people do ‘top up’ salt levels in their food, they will likely still end up with less salt.
Plus there’s salt in all sorts of crazy things like breakfast cereal. If that gets reduced, I don’t think people are going to start salting their fruit loops.