High Salt Content Found in “Healthy” Butter Spreads

WeightWatchers Dairy Spread, marketed as a healthy choice, contained over 2.5g salt per 100g, which is equal to the salt level from Atlantic Ocean while Marks & Spencer Softer Butter, which describes itself as 'slightly salted', in fact contains more salt than Salted Farmhouse Butter.

"It is a scandal there is still so much unnecessary salt in food - for every one gram reduction in intake, we can prevent 12,000 heart attacks, strokes and heart failures, half of which would have been fatal", CASH chairman Professor Graham MacGregor said.

Source: Medindia