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.
Do you have any heahty cooking tips? Put them in the comment box below
Most Viewed News Stories
- 1Arsonists attack family farm - twice
- 2Oldham Post Office re-opens at town centre shopping centre
- 3Oldham man part of crime gang caged for more than 30 years
- 470kg of suspected Class A drugs seized in Oldham
- 5Family pay emotional tribute to grandfather Mark after Chadderton driver is jailed for seven years