Re: My Mate pops up in London for Christmas.

On 18/11/2009 18:02, Gumrat wrote:
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In message <4b019de8$0$4041$5402220f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gumrat <gumrat@xxxxxxxxx> writes
http://www.marmitepopup.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/13/christmas-marmite-popup-shops














Robert Dyas have got a sprinkling of Marmite products -
I've been a bit reluctant to share this fact ..........


http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/

I typed in keyword Marmite in box to find the four
products.

Oooooooooooooh, I want that mug :-) I'm not allowed to
eat real Marmite any more cos of the high salt content
and my BP, so am forced to make do with the Swiss no salt
version of Cenovis, which provokes equally strong
reactions amongst consumers but in my NSHO is not as good
as the Real Thing :-)



Is it really necessary to avoid Marmite because of the
salt? Although the percentage of salt is very high, the
portion sizes are so small that that absolute amount of
salt is acceptable.

As a quick test, I weighed my jar before and after putting
Marmite on two large slices of toast. I reckon I put 5g on
each (the "portion size" is 4g, so that's about right).
That would give 0.5g of salt in the Marmite on each slice.
There's quite possibly more salt in the bread, especially
if you are sparing with the Marmite - a sliced Hovis
wholemeal loaf tells me that it has 0.53g of salt per
slice.

I eat and drink Marmite by the tablespoon (15gm) and the
bread I eat has about 0.15gm of salt per 40gm slice. Are you
sure Hovis has that much salt per slice? Seems a lot to me.
Unless I'm reading the nutritional of my bread wrongly - for
a 400gm loaf, total salt content is 1.3 per cent. Have I done
the sums correctly?

I hesitate to correct you, having just got mine wrong in
another post, but: A 40g slice, with salt level of 1.3%, will
have 0.52g of salt. That's a very hefty slice, mind - a ready
sliced loaf has about 20 slices, at about 20g per slice (0.26g
of salt). At least I think so.

Can someone check my maths?

Yep.

My thick-sliced Hovis wholemeal loaf says that it's 1.05% salt,
which is lower than Gumrat's loaf. The slices weigh 50g, so each
slice contains 0.535g salt. The loaf weighs 800g and hence
contains 16 slices (but I counted them to be sure).

The packet says that in the 400gm loaf, the total salt content is
1.3%. By my calculations, a 40gm slice is a tenth of the loaf and a
tenth of 1.3 is 0.13, no? I'm feeling really obtuse here, but am
absolutely willing to accept I have no idea what I'm talking about.


1.3% means 1.3 percent. 1.3g of salt per 100g of bread.

I'm just quibbling because after listing the ingredients, it says
"teneur totale en sel de cuisine: 1,3%", which to me, means 1.3% of the
entire loaf, not of 100gms. but what do I know?

It doesn't matter the salt is 1.3% of the entire loaf, 1.3% of 100gm of the loaf, and even 1.3% of a crumb of bread. The salt makes up that fraction (1.3/100) of the bread no matter how large or small the piece of bread is.

Colin
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  • Re: My Mate pops up in London for Christmas.
    ... I typed in keyword Marmite in box to find the four ... so am forced to make do with the Swiss no salt ... That would give 0.5g of salt in the Marmite on each slice. ... a 400gm loaf, total salt content is 1.3 per cent. ...
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    ... Robert Dyas have got a sprinkling of Marmite products - I've ... Oooooooooooooh, I want that mug :-) I'm not allowed to eat real Marmite any more cos of the high salt content and my BP, ... I eat and drink Marmite by the tablespoon and the bread I eat has about 0.15gm of salt per 40gm slice. ... Unless I'm reading the nutritional of my bread wrongly - for a 400gm loaf, total salt content is 1.3 per cent. ...
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  • Re: My Mate pops up in London for Christmas.
    ... Robert Dyas have got a sprinkling of Marmite products - I've ... Oooooooooooooh, I want that mug :-) I'm not allowed to eat real Marmite any more cos of the high salt content and my BP, ... I eat and drink Marmite by the tablespoon and the bread I eat has about 0.15gm of salt per 40gm slice. ... Unless I'm reading the nutritional of my bread wrongly - for a 400gm loaf, total salt content is 1.3 per cent. ...
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  • Re: My Mate pops up in London for Christmas.
    ... Robert Dyas have got a sprinkling of Marmite products - I've ... Oooooooooooooh, I want that mug :-) I'm not allowed to eat real Marmite any more cos of the high salt content and my BP, ... I eat and drink Marmite by the tablespoon and the bread I eat has about 0.15gm of salt per 40gm slice. ... Unless I'm reading the nutritional of my bread wrongly - for a 400gm loaf, total salt content is 1.3 per cent. ...
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