Canada tops global survey for having the most sodium in packaged foods

An analysis of nearly 400,000 packaged food and drink products has turned up some healthy and some not-so-healthy findings about what Canadians eat., Canada led the pack when it came to sodium content. Canadian packaged foods averaged 291 milligrams of sodium per 100 grams of food or beverage, ahead of the U.S. at 279 milligrams per 100 grams. At the other end of the scale, packaged foods from Slovenia contained 80 milligrams of sodium per 100 grams.

It was a very different story when it came to saturated fats, which can cause issues with high cholesterol. With one gram of saturated fat per 100 grams of product, Canada had the lowest levels of saturated fat of any country in the survey. China was the highest, at 3.4 grams for every 100 grams of product.

"Globally we're all eating more and more processed foods and that's a concern because our supermarkets' shelves are full of products that are high in bad fats, sugar and salt and are potentially making us sick," lead author Elizabeth Dunford from Australia's University of Sydney said inNearly 15,000 Canadian products were studied in 2013 for the survey.

The survey was funded by agencies in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Slovenia. Canadian funders included the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the University of Toronto and the International Development Research Centre Crown corporation.

Isn't ' unhealthy nutrients' an oxymoron?

Canada, fix this.

They need to teach kids how to cook add healthier lifestyle ditch the processed foods and in some cases over processed

With the beyond meat burgers at the top of the list.

Yuck! Beurk !

Nice. I love salt!

That's criminal JustinTrudeau

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