According to research published by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash), which examined the salt content of 190 jars, pots and packets of pasta, the highest salt product was in Jamie Oliver’s olive and garlic sauce, with 3g per 100g, or 5.3g of salt per recommended 175g portion of sauce. That is equivalent to 88% of an adult’s recommended limit of 6g of salt a day in just one serving and roughly the same as eating more than 10 packets of ready salted crisps.

His other tomato sauces also contained high amounts of salt, at 3g per portion of fiery tomato and chilli, 2.8g per portion of red onion and rosemary, and 2.6g per portion of tomato and basil. Jill Insley, The Guardian.

I never could stand the pseudo cockney fake Jamie Oliver and now it turns out he’s been flogging us not just unhealthy pasta sauces for years but the most unhealthy sauces on the market – and here’s a man who has campaigned endlessly on improving the health of children’s school dinners – but when it comes to his own profit Oliver seems to take a different line – profit first, health – who cares?