{"id":21,"date":"2007-09-24T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/welsh-butter-salt-and-miners\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T15:26:03","slug":"welsh-butter-salt-and-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/welsh-butter-salt-and-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Butter, Salt and Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welsh Butter, Salt and Miners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s <strong>Which?<\/strong> magazine reveals why Welsh butter contains more salt than English or Scottish butter &#8211; it&#8217;s down to the miners!<\/p>\n<p>When Which? researchers found that salt levels in Tesco standard butter on sale in Wales contained 3 per cent more salt that in the rest of the UK, we asked the retailer why.  A spokesperson for Tesco told us, &#8216;Welsh recipes were traditionally high in salt to ensure that miners, who would sweat a lot underground, had enough salt&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tesco<\/strong> does sell low-salt varieties, so make sure you check the packet before you buy if you are looking to lower salt intake.<\/p>\n<p>Which? celebrates its 50th anniversary on 7 October 2007 &#8211; look out for more information in the October issue of Which? magazine and online at <strong>www.which.co.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh Butter, Salt and Miners This month&#8217;s Which? magazine reveals why Welsh butter contains more salt than English or Scottish butter &#8211; it&#8217;s down to the miners! When Which? researchers found that salt levels in Tesco standard butter on sale in Wales contained 3 per cent more salt that in the rest of the UK,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/welsh-butter-salt-and-miners\/\"><span>read more&nbsp;&#8230;<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}