All-Bran is All-Bran, Право?

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, Всемирный действий по Соль и здравоохранения (WASH).

Они сообщили, что many popular foods, including Burger King’s onion rings and Special K cereal, имеют гораздо больше натрия в Канаде, чем они делают к югу от границы.

Here’s more on what they found:

Новое исследование показывает, что people in some countries are being fed over twice as much salt in popular global brands as their counterparts elsewhere in the world.

Всемирный действий по Соль и здравоохранения (WASH) has surveyed over 260 food products available around the world from food manufacturers such as KFC, McDonalds, Келлога, Nestle, 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, Например, 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.

Это порядок Луковые кольца Burger King имеет 681 мг натрия на 100 г в Канаде, но если вы заказываете им в США, the sodium content is 538 мг на 100 г. В Канаде, 100г Special K cereal имеет 931 мг соли, в то время как в США, the same portion of cereal contains 710 мг натрия.

In an article about the WASH study, entitled “Как канадец, как соль,” the Глоб энд мейл попытались выяснить, что счета этих различий:

Burger King Corp. did not respond to a request for comment, and no company contacted agreed to an interview on sodium. Несколько, 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 Канада 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, Почему кетчуп вкус отличается в Канаде?

And if you’re moving to Canada, Ð’Ñ‹, возможно, захотите провести соль!