Does sodium content of instant noodles indicate that there is not standard It is generally a bit high to spot check revealing

Does sodium content of instant noodles indicate that there is not standard It is generally a bit high to spot check revealing
Yesterday, Hong Kong Consumers Council jointly released with the food security centre, in 48 the intersection of instant noodles and sample that business buy, 13 pack sodium content, exceed the standard about recommending in the international body each time, some instant noodles include sodium, up to, take first pack right away go beyond and take in upper limit more.
It is reported to learn from Hong Kong Consumers Council and food security centre according to the reporter, in 48 instant noodles sample, packing sodium content each time of 13 fund, exceed daily sodium that World Health Organization and Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations propose and take in upper limit (2000 milligrams, about a teaspoon salt) .
Might not write sodium content in nutrition label
Except sodium, spot check, reveal some instant noodles total fat content of sample relatively high too.
Hong Kong Consumers Council and food security centre say, sodium that the instant noodles include comes from the stock mostly, consumers are the best and little to flavour the bag and reduce and drink the noodle soup with what has been given as an addition. The reporter finds, all is selling the instant noodles and containing the edible salt on the batching table clearly when the supermarket of business of Guangzhou interview, mainly lie in surface cake, powder and wrap up, among them the edible salt ranks the first even more in the powder bag.
However, it is not all products that list the nutrient component. 84 grams of dark chicken's flavor cups of a net weight, sodium is listed on board in the nutrient of the last one as arranging, but the content is up to 1903 milligrams, is equal to 95% of the consulting value. Other many like products have not written the content of sodium exactly.
"Sodium, as a kind of nutrient, the inland resident's meal guide of our country has a giving a recommendation value, each person's intaking amount does not exceed 6 grams every day. " The food director of research center Fu Liang of Ji'nan University says to this newspaper, if convert sodium is 2000 about more than milligrams. He says, the instant noodles are not so delicious as the salt, sodium and food additive is two concepts, it is illegal that the latter's ultra quantity is used, and the former is only a giving a recommendation value.
Fu Liang says, do not stipulate by force at present, content of sodium that may not indicate in the inland instant noodles nutrition label.
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