Nestlé pledges ambitious salt reduction to meet WHO goal
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Nestlé has pledged to accelerate the reduction of salt across all its food
brands worldwide to support a World Health Organization salt target of no more
than 5g of salt per person, per day, by 2025.
The decision will further reduce salt levels across Nestlé's hundreds of savoury
products including soups, noodles, recipe mixes, frozen and chilled meals and
pizzas, in popular brands including Maggi, Stouffer's, DiGiorno and Buitoni.
In addition, all culinary innovations launched will be specially formulated with
an even lower level of sodium, the company said.
"We have made great strides in reducing the salt content of our food products in
recent years and we want to build on that progress," said Henri-Pierre Lenoble,
Nutrition, Health and Wellness manager within Nestlé Food.
"Our goal is to offer consumers products that enable them to make practical,
healthy nutritional choices, every day," he added.
Healthier products
The announcement by the world's leading health, nutrition and wellness company
follows a Washington conference on dietary salt consumption organised by the
Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional Americas Office of the
World Health Organization.
Nestlé was the first company in the food industry to introduce comprehensive
policies for the systematic reduction of specific nutrients considered to be
detrimental to health when consumed in excess.
Since 2005, the company has worked to progressively and continuously reduce the
salt in its foods and make them healthier for consumers.
Adapting tastes
By 2012, Nestlé recipes contained 14,043 fewer tons of salt than in 2005. The
company is committed to reducing the amount of salt in its high sodium products
- such as ready meals, soups, noodles, recipe mixes and pizzas - by at least
10% in the next three years.
In the US, for example, salt levels in US brand Stouffer's Mac&Cheese meal have
been reduced by almost 15% since 2005. In the UK, a 20-40% reduction was
achieved in the Maggi SoJuicy seasoning range in 2012.
In Brazil, salt levels in Maggi noodles have been cut by a quarter and, in
France, salt levels in Buitoni frozen pizzas have been cut by almost 20% since
2005.
Nestlé's gradual approach to reducing salt levels helps consumers gradually
adapt their taste for salt, making them more likely to continue to make
healthier choices in the future.
Seeking alternatives
Nestlé chefs are constantly looking for different ways of enhancing food with
only moderate amounts of salt, for example using spice and herbs to heighten
flavours.
Nestlé is also at the cutting edge of nutritional research into salt
alternatives, collaborating with US life sciences company Chromocell Corporation
to identify compounds with similar or equally pleasing tastes that could
potentially be used instead of salt in a range of foods.
With brands such as Maggi worldwide, Nestlé also provides consumers with healthy
cooking education programmes, helping them to create tasty and balanced meals
every day with more vegetables, less salt and less fat.
Related information:
Salt reduction at Nestlé fact sheet - English (pdf, 144Kb)
http://www.nestle.com/asset-library/Documents/Media/news-and-features/2013-
November/salt-reduction-at-Nestle-factsheet.pdf
New Nestlé research collaboration seeks alternatives to salt
http://www.nestle.com/media/newsandfeatures/nestle-chromocell-collaboration
Food science and technology
http://www.nestle.com/randd/technologies
The nutritional profile of our products
http://www.nestle.com/randd/nutrition
Nestlé Research and Development
http://www.nestle.com/randd
Nestlé Culinary, Chilled and Frozen Foods
http://www.nestle.com/brands/culinary-chilled-frozen
Media enquiries
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Email: Nestlé Corporate Media Relations
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