Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-five February 2010
Popular domicile brands are mostly no healthier, with manufacturers still a prolonged approach from assembly salt rebate targets, Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash) said.
The investigate found 99% of the soups contained some-more salt per apportionment than a parcel of crisps, a entertain unsuccessful to encounter the 2010 Food Standards Agency normal intentional targets and usually 6% could be marked down immature formed on the trade light labelling system.
Many family grill dishes enclose some-more than twice as most salt as a kid should have in a day Pub puddings are soaked in salt, investigate shows Sandwiches with salt calm homogeneous to 9 bags of crisps No some-more pies for open zone workers Supermarket salads can have some-more fat than Big Mac, watchdog findsCash surveyed 575 ready-to-eat soups from high travel bondage Eat, Caffe Nero and Pret a Manger as well as branded and own-label varieties from all the vital supermarkets.
Some Eat soups contained ""astoundingly high"" amounts of salt, with 10 products carrying some-more than the stream every day limit letter of reference of 6g.
Eat"s largest Bold Thai Green Chicken Curry contained 8.070g of salt per 32oz/907g portion, the same volume as scarcely 3 Big Macs with fries.
The same soup in the smallest distance contained 2.815g per 12oz/340g portion, scarcely half of the every day letter of reference and still some-more than a Big Mac and fries.
Caffe Nero"s customary distance organic carrot and coriander soup contained 3.6g of salt, some-more than three-and-a-half times that of the lowest takeaway soup - a Malaysian duck soup from Pret A Manger at 1.0g per portion.
New Covent Garden Scotch Broth contained the top volume of salt between the supermarket brands at 2.4g per 300g portion, the homogeneous of scarcely five packets of crisps. Tideford Organics Moroccan Vegetable contained the lowest volume at 0.44g per 300g portion.
The investigate found a 17% rebate in salt in ready-to-eat soup ranges given the last consult in 2007.
However vital brands were stability to loiter behind, with a sum of twenty-three supermarket products containing 2g or some-more salt per portion, eighteen of these from heading brands together with Heinz, New Covent Garden and Batchelors.
The supermarkets met 2010 targets in 93% of cases, whilst the branded products trailed with 66% assembly targets.
Cash mouthpiece Katharine Jenner said: ""People lend towards to think salt is usually in crisps, snacks and ready meals. But this consult shows outrageous amounts of salt can be dark in clearly full of health choices such as soup.
""While there are still soups being made with unequivocally high levels of dark salt it is tough for us to cut down the salt money coming in to less than 6g of salt a day from the stream normal of 8.6g a day.
""We urge manufacturers to revoke their salt calm immediately.""
Professor Graham MacGregor, of the Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry and authority of Cash, said: ""The infancy of the food industry is solemnly receiving out the salt from food, together with these soups. We praise the swell so far, however they haven"t left far sufficient if we are to save the limit series of lives.
""This consult shows that a little companies are not co-operating. The open should protest these products so we don"t have to review to legislation.""
