Jill Insley - According to Jamie Oliver, his range of pasta sauces is "all about offering exciting flavours, using great quality ingredients at decent prices. I want to get people excited about having pasta and sauce, to really get their tastebuds going." Unfortunately, he has been heavy-handed in using one particular ingredient: salt.
Despite taking school caterers to task for dishing up the likes of Turkey Twizzlers on the grounds that they were bad for children's health, Oliver has been accused of using more salt in his tomato-based pasta sauces than any other range. According to research published by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash), which examined the salt content of 190 jars, pots and packets of pasta, the highest salt product was in Jamie Oliver's olive and garlic sauce, with 3g per 100g, or 5.3g of salt per recommended 175g portion of sauce. That is equivalent to 88% of an adult's recommended limit of 6g of salt a day in just one serving and roughly the same as eating more than 10 packets of ready salted crisps...
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