Which contains more salt: a bag of potato chips or a muffin?

Muffins can hide more salt than crisps, making them the less healthy choice for kids

June 07, 2008

Source

TimesOnline

If you are out and about and are looking for a quick, healthy snack for your children, an orange and lemon wholegrain muffin may sound like a good option. If you are watching their salt intake, however, you would be better off giving them a bag of crisps. While a typical coffee shop muffin has 1.4g of salt, a 25g bag of crisps has 0.4g, a whole gram less.

That may not sound much, but when you consider that a child aged 4 to 6 should be having a maximum of 3g daily, it gives you a clearer perspective of the scale of the saving