All-Bran is All-Bran, सही?

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, नमक और स्वास्थ्य पर विश्व लड़ाई (धोने).

वे कहते हैं कि सूचना दी many popular foods, including Burger King’s onion rings and Special K cereal, वे सीमा के दक्षिण की तुलना में कनाडा में कहीं अधिक सोडियम है.

Here’s more on what they found:

नए शोध से पता चलता है कि people in some countries are being fed over twice as much salt in popular global brands as their counterparts elsewhere in the world.

नमक और स्वास्थ्य पर विश्व लड़ाई (धोने) has surveyed over 260 food products available around the world from food manufacturers such as KFC, McDonalds, Kellogg’s, 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, उदाहरण के लिए, 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.

के उस आदेश बर्गर किंग प्याज के छल्ले है 681 कनाडा में 100 ग्राम प्रति सोडियम की मिलीग्राम, लेकिन आप अमेरिका में उन्हें आदेश अगर, the sodium content is 538 100g प्रति मिलीग्राम. कनाडा में, 100जी Special K cereal है 931 नमक की मिलीग्राम, अमेरिका में जबकि, the same portion of cereal contains 710 सोडियम की मिलीग्राम.

In an article about the WASH study, entitled “नमक के रूप में कनाडा के रूप में,” the ग्लोब एंड मेल इन मतभेदों के लिए खातों पता क्या करने का प्रयास किया:

बर्गर किंग कॉर्प. did not respond to a request for comment, and no company contacted agreed to an interview on sodium. कई, 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.

केलॉग कनाडा इंक. 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, केचप स्वाद क्यों करता है कनाडा में अलग है?

And if you’re moving to Canada, आप नमक धारण करने के लिए चाहते हो सकता है!