Just eaten a Tescos salmon and cheese sandwhich. Bit into it and thought crikey there's a lot of salt in that it tastes flippin' horrible… looked at the packet and it says 2.5g 42% daily recommended.

Why is there that much salt in one sandwhich packet and what is the reason for it ? didn't enjoy it, im now very thirsty but at least I'm not hungry. Water is on tap.

Kev

Odd isnt it. Lots of 'contents' lists on food are as bad. I cant see the need, other than maybe its cheap flavouring and a preservative so they can keep it hanging around on the shelves longer. Its almost impossible to escape garlic as well, in any Marks and Spencers food. Its in the most bizarre food packs.

Cheese has (cue random google) 620mg sodium per 100g (so salt is more, being NaCl).
Salmon isn't too bad, 64mg/100g.
Crap bread has too much salt in.
Butter often has salt in.

Plus salt added as seasoning.

The less salt you eat, the more you notice it I find.

Have a nice plain jacket potato instead. Canteen at Emerald does those, I think!

I'd rather risk a higher than recommended salt intake than eat a plain jacket potato…

beej, on a training course in Wokingham. The food here is pretty bad and not much of it so I go to Tescos for something extra. The sandwhiches in the canteen at Emerald aren't quite as bad as at Tescos I've just discovered. I usually eat a fairly low salt/ sugar diet so I do notice it… I'll be bringing my own food tomorrow…

Kev

What do jacket potatoes need to make them yummy? Salt! 🙂

Or cheese and chilli and beans and butter.

salt's usually used to make 5hit ingredients add up to something more than the sum of their parts, non?

Jacket potato with salt? Never, ever considered salting a potato.

Now hard boiled eggs are a different matter…

Maybe they're using the salt as a preservative on the salmon?!

Don't use salt on anything when I'm cooking. Never been a problem for me. Can't stand it when I eat something salty, as beej said, the less salt you eat the more you notice it in other food.