All-Bran is All-Bran, destra?

If you regularly eat a cereal like Kellogg’s All-Bran in the U.S., you’d assume that that cereal would taste the same in Canada.

Not according to a recent study by the group, World Action on Salt e la salute (WASH).

Essi hanno riferito che many popular foods, including Burger King’s onion rings and Special K cereal, hanno di sodio molto più in Canada di quanto non facciano a sud del confine.

Here’s more on what they found:

Una nuova ricerca dimostra che people in some countries are being fed over twice as much salt in popular global brands as their counterparts elsewhere in the world.

World Action on Salt e la salute (WASH) has surveyed over 260 food products available around the world from food manufacturers such as KFC, McDonalds, Kellogg, Annidarsi, Burger King and Subway.  Not one product surveyed had the same salt content around the world and some displayed huge differences in salt content from one country to another.

Kellogg’s All-Bran, per esempio, contains 2.15g of salt per 100g in Canada, but only 0.65g of salt per 100g just over the border in the United States, less than a third of the Canadian level.

Tale ordine di Burger King Onion Rings ha 681 mg di sodio per 100 g in Canada, ma se li ordini negli Stati Uniti, the sodium content is 538 mg per 100g. In Canada, 100g di Special K cereal ha 931 mg di sale, mentre negli Stati Uniti, the same portion of cereal contains 710 mg di sodio.

In an article about the WASH study, entitled “Come canadese Salt,” il Globe and Mail ha tentato di scoprire cosa rappresenta queste differenze:

Burger King Corp. did not respond to a request for comment, and no company contacted agreed to an interview on sodium. Alcuni, including KFC Canada and McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Ltd., declined an interview request but sent a statement via e-mail.

A McDonald’s Canada spokesman said the company reviews its menus frequently, while KFC Canada said sodium levels may be higher in one country than another due to consumer preference.

Kellogg Canada Inc. also declined an interview request, but said in an e-mail statement that “geographical variances in consumer taste preferences and ingredient supplies” explain why some of the company’s products contain different amounts of sodium in different countries. The company’s products contain “the minimum amount of sodium needed to meet consumers’ taste preference in new products,” according to an e-mail statement from Christine Lowry, vice-president of nutrition and corporate affairs.

For more on some of the differences between prepared foods in Canada and the U.S., have a look at our post, Perché il gusto ketchup diverso in Canada?

And if you’re moving to Canada, si potrebbe desiderare di tenere il sale!