SANDWICH INDUSTRY CUTS SATURATED FATS

Recent stories quoting sandwiches as containing high levels of saturated fats are wrong, says the British Sandwich Association.

Chicken is the number one filling in commercially made sandwiches – and by a huge margin.    Furthermore chicken has far less saturated fat than many other foods!

Cheese is one of the ingredients that typically contains saturated fats but only 6.8% of commercially made sandwiches have cheese in them – that’s one sandwich in 15!  

A recently published BSA/TNS report gives the volumes of key ingredients used in commercially made sandwiches as follows:

Bread Chicken Ham Cheese Bacon Eggs Tuna Prawns Salmon

217,000 tonnes 39,700 tonnes 8,250 tonnes 6,500 tonnes 5,400 tonnes 4,900 tonnes 4,500 tonnes 4,150 tonnes 3,350 tonnes

 

“Saturated fats do not feature highly in these top fillings,” says BSA Director  Jim Winship.  “As the sandwich industry is an assembler of ingredients rather than a manufacturer of them, it can only achieve reductions in salt and fat levels if suppliers of ingredients are able to make reductions. In fact, the commercial sandwich industry has been working hard with the Food Standards Agency to do just this and has made major strides forward in achieving reductions in both saturated fats and salt in the last couple of years.

“It really is completely ludicrous to headline sandwiches as having high saturated fat levels when so many other foods have much higher levels of these fats.

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