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Food Survey Information Sheet 57/04
The Food Standards Agency has recently carried out a survey to look at the levels of a limited range of nutrients, including salt, fat and sugar in a variety of baked beans and tinned pasta products.
Of the products included in this survey, an adult portion of standard baked beans contains on average 2.7g salt, which equates to 45% of the recommended maximum daily intake of salt per day for an adult.
Healthy eating baked beans contain about 60% of the amount of salt and sugar in standard baked beans.
For standard baked beans, beans and sausages, standard spaghetti and children's pasta shapes categories, the product with the highest salt content had between two and three times the amount of salt as the one with the lowest salt content.
The salt, fat and sugar content of standard baked beans has not changed since they were last analysed 15 years ago.
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(pdf 40KB) FSIS 57/04 Table 1: Average nutrient content of each product category Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet 17kbDownload excel
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(Excel 45KB) FSIS 57/04 Table 3: Salt content of individual products per 100g and per portion Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet 278kbDownload excel
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(Excel 52KB) FSIS 57/04 Table Annexe 1: Details of changes in product composition since sampling Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet 21kbDownload excel
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