Salt Awareness Remains Paramount at Tossed
From 26 March, Salt Awareness Week will be focusing on stroke prevention due to the large amount of evidence linking salt with raised blood pressure and stroke risk. Whilst many manufacturers and retailers are jumping on the bandwagon now, Tossed, the healthier eating place, has never added salt to its foods since it first opened in 2005.
Last month, the Tossed store at Copthall Avenue EC2 in the City, tossed around 3,000 create-your-own salads and wraps, all big on taste, high in protein, low in calories and with no added salt.
Tossed’s ethos that ‘healthy eating does not have to be boring’ is shown by offering new and exciting food combinations, such as Spicy Prawn Salad which uses coriander and chilli for seasoning, helping people to make positive changes to their diets without trying that hard.
Incredibly, only 20 percent of salt intake comes from salt added at the table, with the other 80 percent coming from processed food. By using only fresh ingredients packed with natural flavour, there is no need to add salt to make food taste good. Tossed’s salads, wraps, hand-made soups and stews, and healthy breakfast items, are therefore a big step in the right direction.
Add to this the fact that Tossed also keeps away from saturated fats and only uses good, slow GI releasing carbs, and you can easily see why Tossed is the only fully rounded healthy eating offer on the high street, from breakfast to main meals, which can really make a difference to people’s diets. By keeping food simple, fresh and natural, you can eat to your heart’s content.
‘Your body does need a certain amount of salt’ says Vincent Mckevitt, 30, the young founder of Tossed. ‘You cannot get rid of toxins if you don’t have salt to process them through sweat, for example. But the salt naturally found in foods such as prawns, cheese or olives is more than enough. And these are good foods which your body needs in moderation’.
He continues: ‘Eating five-a-day also helps lower blood pressure. Since we started, we have always shown the portions of fruit and vegetable in each item. We add herbs, spices, chilli, lemon, seeds, we roast ingredients to intensify the flavours rather than using salt. The medium Moroccan salad (base ingredients chicken breast, oven roasted tomatoes and roasted peppers) contains 1.6 of your vegs with only 260 calories but a mega 22 g of protein and only 1.6 g of saturated fat. With a Berry Punch smoothie containing 3.7 of your fruit, 0.1 g of saturated fat, you see how easy eating five-a-day can be’.
There are currently eight Tossed in London, with more opening later in the year.
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