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Sep 2024
6m 41s

Less salt, better health

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Are we all eating too much salt? Neil and Georgie teach you some useful vocabulary.

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Correction: In the programme we say that meat contains 19% salt, making it the saltiest type of everyday food. In fact it’s some processed meat and meat dishes that contains 19% salt, according to the British Heart Foundation.

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