Poles lose claim to being world's leading salt overconsumers
PR dla Zagranicy
Aleksander Nowacki
19.03.2015 09:57
Poles have dropped from the top of global league tables of per-capita salt consumption, but continue to hoover up the tasty mineral at double the recommended levels, a report finds.
Underground chapel at the Bochnia saltmine. Poland has the world's oldest functioning saltmines.
Poland’s per-capita consumption has declined since 1998 to 11 grams a day from 15, the Food and Nutrition Institute said in a report released on the World Salt Awareness.
At or near the top of the global league tables in terms of per-capita salt consumption, Poland is now behind Turkey (15 grams per day), Hungary (14.8) or Croatia (14.5), but ahead of Israel (7 grams a day) or the US (8.5).
Much of the excess salt is eaten in bread, processed meats and dairies, the report says.
Retired Poles consume as much as 16 grams of salt per day, twice as much as the self-employed, the report finds.
People with only elementary education eat twice as much salt as university graduates.
As many as 90 percent of Polish children aged three eat too much salt. (an)
Source: PAP