Today's myth-buster
Date published: 04 February 2009
False - 75% of the salt in our diet comes from processed foods. Just 10 to 15% comes from the salt we add when we're cooking or at the table.
On average we're eating about 8.6g of salt a day. But we should try to cut this down to no more than 6g of salt a day for adults.
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