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There is nothing better than having a tasty bit of fish and crunchy chips on a cold winter’s night.

Click on this blog to find a delicious recipe for mouth-watering fish & chips.

Have you ever experienced food poisoning before? If you have, then you know how horrible it is. If you haven’t, well, just be glad that you haven’t and hope that you never have to experience it. 

Did you know that around 75% of salt can be found within processed and packaged food, which makes it difficult to monitor? Salt contains sodium so if your diet is high in salt, then you are putting yourself at risk of heart disease. With this in mind, we’ve listed a few actions you can take to reduce the amount of salt, and sodium, in your diet.

One of the misconceptions currently is that salt is the same as sodium and so the terms can be used interchangeably. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Sodium is just one of the components of salt.

We all know that too much salt can lead to heart disease. We are already eating more than the recommended amount of salt each day according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)1. However, what most of us might not know is that it’s the sodium in salt which has the greatest role in heart disease risk.