Prof Tim Spector
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Unless you live and work in a French restaurant, then it's only about 10% of your intake.
It varies a bit, but it's at most 20%.
So at least 80% is coming from prepackaged foods that you're buying, whether in canned soups, whether they're in biscuits, they're in muesli, they're in children's cereals, things that you don't expect to find so much salt.
Much more, yeah.
It's like three or four times more you were getting.
And they're often doing it to disguise some of the other flavors.
Salt is used to disguise a lot of the chemicals that they're putting into these foods.
It's also there to provide this hyperpalatability.
This is a term we've talked about, make you overeat.
So by adding a certain amount of salt to things, if you combine that with salt and fat in these foods, you will naturally overeat and therefore spend more money on that company's product than you would otherwise have done.
Correct.
And it's obviously so vital to their product.
They really haven't worked out a way of doing without it.
And so it's the number one thing that we should be avoiding.
And it's the worst thing is it's in many, you know, children's products and things you don't even think are salty.
I mean, don't normally...
Think of cookies or biscuits as needing salt in them.
And yet there they are with the sugar, you've got the salt.
It's often used to preserve them for even longer shelf lives as well.
So that's where most of the salt comes from.
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