Salt Replacers

Sugar Reduction

Forum Products Limited
Betchworth House, 57-65 Station Road
Redhill, Surrey RH1 1DL
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)1737 857700
enquiries@forumgroup.co.uk

Salt Replacers

Following various campaigns in Europe, it is accepted that excessive salt consumption leads to high blood pressure and can lead to health issues.

It has been published that around 18 million people in the UK have high blood pressure, or hypertension. People with high blood pressure are three times more likely to develop heart disease or have a stroke than people with normal blood pressure.

IN THE UK, THE FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY (FSA) HAS LAUNCHED PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGNS FOCUSING IN THREE AREAS:

Make the consumer aware of the levels of salt in prepared food
Increase pressure in the food industry to reduce salt in food
Reduce use of salt at the table

MORE INFORMATION
More about the Food Standard Agency’s salt campaign can be found on www.salt.gov.uk, while the targets published in March 2006 are found here.

Functions of Salt

Although when talking about salt reduction, the focus tends to be on flavour; however, salt has other functions in food, such as technical (helps processing), preservation, texturisation, cost reduction (cheap bulking agent), water retention, nutritional, etc.

Forum Products Ltd specialize in a range of salt replacement, salt enhancement and flavour enhancement ingredients to assist in meeting the FSA targest for salt reduction.

WE CAN OFFER FULL TECHNICAL SUPPORT IN THIS AREA

Dr Paul Lohmann

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