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Table 7: Examples of products with ‘a lot’ of total fat (> 20g/100g)Manufacturer Brand/Product Name Fat Content (g per 100g)Safeway Chocolate hazelnut spread 39.0McVitie’s Milky Way cake bars 32.6Herta Snappy Dogs hot dog sausages 29.3Danepack Streakers crispy cooked bacon 29.2Burtons Barbie chocolate bars with strawberry filling 28.7Nestle Milkybar biscuits 28.119
4.4 Sodium (salt)Dietary guidelines suggest an upper daily limit of around 2.5 grams of sodium,equivalent to 6 grams of salt. Foods rated as having high levels of sodium werethose with 0.5 grams sodium per 100g or per portion.Of the 358 children’s products examined in the present survey, 115 products didnot declare their sodium or salt content. Of the remaining 243 products, 111(46%) contained high levels of sodium (see note to Table 3). Moderate amountswere found in a further 70 (29%) of foods (see note to Table 3).Table 8: Examples of products with ‘a lot’ of sodium (> 0.5g/100g)Manufacturer Brand/Product Name Sodium (g per 100g)Bestfoods UK Ltd Fun Pots, chicken and mushroom flavour noodles 1.8Kraft Dairylea Lunchables, double cheese 1.5Feldhues Batman, pork and chicken sausage slices 1.2Kellogg’s Rice Krispies cereal 1.2Tesco Billy Bear sausage slices 1.2Quaker Oats Ltd Oat Krunchies, cereal 1.14.5 Healthier productsAlthough many products were low in fat, say, or sugar or salt, all too frequently aproduct that was low in one measure was high in another. A low salt product wasoften a high sugar product. Indeed, out of the 358 products examined, the largemajority, 77%, were high in one or more of the four dietary constituents – sugar,saturated fat, total fat or salt.Of the products with full nutritional labelling, we found a total of four productsthat were low in sugar, saturated fat, total fat and salt. We also identified severalother products which, being plain fresh or frozen fruit or vegetables, could be20
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