The British Heart Foundation has released new research which found that some pizza parlours are packing in more salt than you can handle.
Would you like some pizza with your salt? That’s what diners at the Adam & Eve restaurant in Mill Hill, London should have been asked when ordering a pepperoni pizza. One pepperoni pizza from Adam & Eve’s contained a whopping 10.57 grams of salt. Keep in mind the HSE suggests you should only have between 4 and 6 grams of salt per day.
The seawater in the Atlantic Ocean contains around 2.5 grams of salt per 100 grams of water, whereas the Adam & Eve pizza contained 2.73 grams per 100 grams of pizza. Therefore, the pizza was literally saltier than the Atlantic Ocean.
If you’re a bit of a sodium lover then don’t go buying plane tickets to London just yet, as the Adam & Eve restaurant has ensured customers that it has changed it’s recipes since the revelations about its salty pizza broke out.
The British Heart Foundation research into how salty everyday pizzas actually are was fascinating. Almost 200 different margherita and pepperoni pizzas from take-a-ways, supermarkets and popular pizza chains were tested for their salt content.
Only 16 per cent of pizzas tested met the recommended target for salt content in a pizza, which is 1.25 grams of salt per 100 grams of pizza. As you can see the London pizza restaurant was just shy of the mark – whole 9.3 grams shy.
The survey was all part of Salt Awareness Week, which you can find out more about on safefood.eu.
