FSA works with UK fast food chains to make food healthier

PizzaExpress, Pizza Hut, The Restaurant Group, Tragus and Domino’s have all agreed to provide a range of healthier options for their customers, and to give the Food Standards Agency a 6 month progress report.

Measures include using less salt in pizza dough and training their chefs not to use salt in food preparation, providing fuller nutritional data for customers and making children's meals healthier by the addition of 'hidden' vegetables.

I wonder if they will succeed in getting chefs not to use salt in food preparation? Old habits die hard. Maybe the Food Standards Agency could also get together with TV chefs about avoiding the use of salt in meal preparation.

Salt intake is a factor in many illnesses, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, heart disease, kidney and liver disease, type 2 diabetes, most cancers, depression, bone weakening, arthritis and asthma, and also, you may be surprised to learn, obesity, especially childhood obesity. Eating more fruit and vegetables helps to counter the harm that salt causes.

Reference

Margaret Wilde http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/vulnerable_groups.html