Salt in Jamie Oliver sauces a recipe for ill-health

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/12/jamie-oliver-pasta-sauce-salt-content

Salt in Jamie Oliver sauces a recipe for ill-health

Summary
The British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been criticized about the high salt content in his pasta sauces. Jamie Oliver, who has been campaigning to ban the junk in schools and have changed the unhealthy school dinners into fresh nutritious food, thought that he was increasing the eating habits of teenagers but his own pasta sauces are not so healthy either. Jamie Oliver’s olive and garlic sauce is the highest salt product. There was 5.3g of salt per recommended 175g portion of sauce. The adult’s recommended limit is 6g salt a day. Too much salt can cause strokes and heart diseases because salt puts up our blood pressure. It is difficult to see which product is least salty because of the inconsistent labeling and portion sizes. Jamie Oliver’s team improved the pasta sauces and in less than a moth they are available in the supermarkets and the sauces will probably have 0.8g of salt
per 100g.

Reaction
I think it’s weird that a chef who always recommend healthy fresh products and promotes fresh healthy food on school instead of junk food sells his own unhealthy pasta sauces. It is contradictory especially because the salt content in food is a issue these days. People eat too much salt without them knowing. It was not the first time that he has been criticized on the high salt content in pasta sauces. This second time Jamie’s team is taking action to improve the sauce, but why now? It harms his image in my opinion.