The cinema popcorn with five days’ worth of sugar: Other packs can contain almost an entire days salt consumption

‘Cinema popcorn can contain the equivalent of five days’ worth of sugar consumption in a single pack.

Other types are so salty that one pack will provide almost the entire daily consumption recommended for an adult.

The figures come from campaigners who say food companies have effectively hijacked what could be a healthy snack to create a junk food which fuels obesity and ill health.’

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