Pub food nutritional survey
Overview
New research carried out by London Environmental Health Officers
across London on behalf of Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH)
shows that many pub meals can contain large amounts of salt, in some
cases a three course meal contains more than the daily maximum limit
for an adult.
Levels of saturated fat in the meals tested were also often very high, with one dish containing more than double the recommended maximum daily intake for men and women.
In the first London-wide analysis of pub foods, which was coordinated by Wandsworth Council Environmental Health officers sampled 53 popular menu items from some of the UKs favourite pubs serving food. Samples were purchased from the restaurants and analysed for their salt, fat, saturated fat and calorie content by the Public Analyst.
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