How much sodium is in your food at Boston Pizza, Earls, Joey Restaurants and others? (Marketplace)
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2023
- CBC Marketplace found that some healthy-sounding food from popular restaurant chains - Boston Pizza, Earls Kitchen + Bar, Joey Restaurants, Milestones Grill and Bar, Jack Astor’s Bar & Grill, and Kelseys Original Roadhouse - contain high amounts of sodium, some even exceeding Health Canada’s recommended daily limit. In Canada, this information isn’t listed on the menu in a restaurant.
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"How are you?" "Not that good!" That had me dead. lol
came to the comments specifically to see if anyone else mentioned this haha
Crazy. I always knew sodium was added to most things. But I was confident that not adding salt (which I havent done since my teens after my mom had a plethora of heart issues, and was an avid salt user) was "more than enough" to keep the numbers down. After this video I went & checked out the sodium on my favorite dish at each of my most frequent places, and all but 1 went over the daily max, and the 1 that didnt was still over 80%. I live in a situation where I frequently have to eat out, and eat pre-packaged food so avoiding it is impossible. But after this, I will start limiting how often I get my favorite dishes now. Thankfully my morning meal only has 95 mg, so thats 1 meal thats not making a dent in my total.
These episodes are very informative and they do reveal some items you think are healthier but are a little misleading. However, if you are dining out you have to be responsible for your choices and assume that you are not going to be eating as healthy as you would at home. Keep up the great work Marketplace!
Most of people eat not healthy food at home + plus because we lazy we add a lot of already made food from shops like any milk products , sauces ... Just accept nothing is healthy .
It would be helpful if they had shared how much sodium the average home cooked version of these foods might contain. 2 cups of Caesar salad with dressing is estimated to be about 512 mg sodium on Cronometer.
Make your own salad dressing. Problem solved. Stop buying all that processed pre-made crap.
@@newlin83 salt, pepper, oil, vinegar. Dressing. 2 seconds. 10 cents.
@@josephsmith594Good for you. If your answer to everything is to blame everything 100% on the person and not pass blame on any of the companies, then why are you here?
@@tarag7292 I’m responsible for my own health. Sue me for not blaming everyone else for my problems.
As a recent heart bypass patient who is on a sodium restricted diet, I found this a good expose. However, your crew seem to be confused between a packet of table salt and milligrams of sodium. There are 2300mg of sodium in a teaspoon of salt, so the act of tearing open salt packets for demonstration purposes seems odd and misleading. The article was good for people who don't know about sodium, but for those who have spent some time researching sodium contents, it's a little imaginative in the demo. I don't know how much salt was in those little packets, but I'm guessing that by the time you dumped them for even one food item, you were into the tens of thousands of milligrams of sodium. I love CBC and Marketplace but I prefer if you get these things factual.
If people feel the need to add so much salt to their food, it’s due to zinc deficiency, which causes you to not taste foods enough.
If you've tried a low sodium diet it's surprising how much better food tastes. And when you eat processed food you may have enjoyed before you really notice how salty they are, even things like sodium-reduced Campbell's soup.
I've been living in Canada for 17 years and I've never eaten in any of these restaurants... I only went to a Swiss Chalet once!
Long ago my husband and I stopped going to any of these restaurants, the salt level was unbelievable!😮
Did you go to the supermarket more or cook more
More episodes like this please!
I really wish restaurants would stop over salting food. It seems like at every step of the food preparation chain from the factory to the table, workers and chefs are adding excess salt.
Brined chicken, salty wraps, salty sauces, salty appetizers, salty dips, etc. adds up to insane levels.
One very easy way to lower sodium from restaurant takeouts is to make them last. For e.g. that Earl's tofu bowl can be made into 2 full bowls by adding some pan-fried tofu, chickpeas soaked and cooked, slices of store-bought frozen mango chunks (PC is a great choice), raw almonds, cashews, plain rice, kale, spinach or sliced avocados. Another option is to eat a large chunk of fruit like a slice of papaya or an apple before eating half of the tofu bowl thus extending it into two bowls. We crave restaurant foods because we like the taste of the flavors and the fillings (read sodium). So making them last is a great way to enjoy takeout as well as consuming less sodium.
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I stopped eating in all those restaurants a long time ago. The “you’re lucky to be here” customer experience was just too annoying.
I was at Boston Pizza on Hunt Club Rd and one of the kids ordered the French onion soup. Let's just say that after trying the first tbs, it was taken back by our server and haven't been back since!
I think we all know it’s common knowledge that if you eat out it’s way more higher sodium than cooking at home.
It is but the amount of sodium being put into all foods at restaurants even so-called "healthier options" is really quite disgusting when you look into the numbers. Consumers should demand better because we're literally paying these ppl for health problems.
More More. Great video. You have done Canada proud.
Taco Bell in the US had to put warnings on some of their menu items because the one item had more than the entire days worth of sodium… 2700mg I recall. That is REPULSIVE. Make your food at home folks. It’ll taste better anyway.
Bottom line is don't eat out all the time, but be moderate and balance out between eating out and cooking at home
There’s an error in the demonstration. One gram of salt is about half a gram of sodium.
This one bothers me. They are attacking Sodium, but those foods also contain ridiculous amounts of Sugar. Sugar kills way more people. Sodium intake needs to reduce in the general population, but it's the smallest problem with the American diet. File this in the category of "Who cares".
Agreed
I completely agree.
This isn't news. It's well known. And nearly all restaurant food these days is absolute crap.
Just don’t eat out everyday, once in a while it’s ok, and cook food at home with less salt and seasonings.
Thats fine for people where that is an option. Many people work, and dont have time to sit at home preparing 3 meals a day. Others live in situations where they may have limited kitchen access (lots of low income buildings have 1 kitchen for 10-50 units), and cant spend 4 hours creating meals for the day. Theres a plethora of reasons people dont spend 25% of their waking hours cooking.
And here we go. People assuming that just because they go to restaurants means that they never cook at home. How about some people may want a break from having to prep food, cook food, and wash dishes everyday and want a break by going out once in a while? And if they do, don't want products full of sodium?
As long as your kidneys are healthy, sodium intake, within reason, doesn't matter. Show me the peer reviewed studies.
We need salt
Going low carb and not retaining water from carbo*hydrates*
I NEED to make sure I have enough in my food. Good quality salt of course.
i wonder if the amount of water you drink makes a difference in terms of sodium intake. I feel like if you drink more water, it will 'dilute' the concentration of sodium you ingest, though maybe it's more complicated than that.
I would really appreciate if we did what New York did. It would allow me to be more mindful in the foods that I eat.
I rarely ate out when i lived in the UK, two or three times a year, birthdays and special occasions only. Then I married a Canadian and moved there. We ate out 4 or 5 times a week, in fact my wife didn't know how to turn her stove on. After a year I put a stop to it, and started to cook our own food at home. If you eat out at these places every day, it's your own fault if you get sick in my opinion.
She’s blessed to have such a responsible and caring husband like you. Wish you all the best ❤
@user-yt8ls1nu7t Well it was true, she didn't. In fact among her friends it was considered 'Uncool' to cook at home. Now we both cook, depending on who gets home first. And yes it is hard when you've put in a long day at work, but the alternative is worse.
This is not surprising for someone who's read nutrition labels/data closely. If you ask at larger chains, they will have a sheet handy with the nutrition facts on there.
Common sense says eating out is NEVER healthy ALWAYS overpriced and TRASH. When we go out/to work we bring homemade food 🤷♂️
@@healinggrace5117 I'm 100% right and so is common sense lol.
Is there an option from these restaurants that when you order a high sodium content food in their menu you can always ask for a reduced salt ( e.g., no salt or half salt content)?
As explained in the video, it doesn’t work because most of this stuff is premixed in advance.
For most foods, the majority of salt is pre-mixed in. There may be some times where it can be reduced a little, but most of it is automatically in there.
In 2004 the average intake was like 3000mg, so we already made progress
We need to also start changing the way chefs are trained and cook (glad to see a couple were talked with this, but we need more). When you watch them in cooking shows the biggest thing they want people to add is salt, when a lot of the stuff they are using already has sodium in it. It's almost like a chef has to add lots of salt no matter what, and it's trained into them. I've removed sodium from cooking until the ingredients don't have any in it and then it's only a little I add and if you season well, you can't actually tell. Once you get used to removing/reducing sodium you will actually start to taste it more in the restaurant foods.
Msg msg stop being a coward and enjoy ur msg
@cbcmarketplace
How come 2350 mg of sodium in Mediterranean salad equivalent to 12 (half grams) packs ?
12 salt packs = 6000 mg or 6 grams...
Would you like to comment or explain ??
On camera / off camera / comment / email ?
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Good question, I was also wondering about this.
Salt =NaCl, ie: the 6 grams includes the chlorine or any other compound bound with the sodium
Thank you for this information.
I haven't heard of such restaurants before
For these and other restaurant chains it's almost like getting away with murder.
10:00 This warning requirement sounds like a great idea until you consider how that can become 'white noise' due to their placement on almost every dish. It's like having a to-do list with all the items marked as ASAP rendering the term meaningless.
Surprised one of the swaps wasn't low sodium salt which is available in stores and tastes just like salt but half the sodium mg
doesn't flavour food near as well as table salt! I tried it myself, there is no substitute for salt. I need to work on lowering sodium in my diet though
Its not the sodium that'll get you. It's the sugar. The amount of sugar in every chain restaurants sauces is insane. 20L of a special mustard contains 2KG of molasses, 6KG of brown sugar.
Salt is very cheap, compared to the cost of other seasonings. That's why they put so much of it in everything. At the end of the day it's all about $$$
Making an effort to cut sodium while eating the same stye of food isn't enough. Understand that the ONLY reason most of this food tastes good is because of the sodium. Buy a can of No Salt Added Campbell's Mushroom Soup and see, it has no taste. Finding food recipes that taste good without sodium is key. You need to adjust what you eat and your expectations as well.
I used to eat out befeore when i was a little girl at manhants pizza in guelph ontrio canda I used to order pizza with onion and garlic free tomato sauce, made with tomates, marjium basil and I used to ask for spiach, goat chese, broccoli and extra lean chicken. I used to get spiacnh or cherries with no sugar for dessert inteased of something sweet.
I love Earls
i guess chinese food must have sky rocket amount of sodium per meal
Skyrockets are made using gundpowder; charcoal, and potassium nitrate, not sodium. Although you are correct that the Chinese invented gunpowder
Restaurant pizza will always have high sodium no matter what.
15:10 what's he talking about? He ever see Gordon Ramsay put salt on one steak? It seems to be close to that amount lol
5:59
8 pocket ......seems fine. (I mean I can eat that much pack in once.)
What did you expect? Want less salt eat at home!!!
Yes but eating out is fun. And excessive amounts of salt is unnecessary.
Why not have salt warnings on salsa naan bread refried beans and believe it or not garden coctail
Never eaten at any of these places, I'm 40 and average Canadian, who can afford to eat at these locations?! Is this typical for Toronto and other large cities?
Again if they are putting a warning on the menu then its your responsibility to take it with a grain of salt 😂
Kidneys!!!
Chef Olson's got to cut back on more than salt....
We should start mining these pizzas for the sodium to make batteries.
None of these chains are in Quebec (except a small amount of boston pizzas)
There are some Jack Astor in Montreal.
Doesn't matter which of the chains you eat at as they all have the same sodium impact. If sodium is a concern; stay out of restaurants (maybe once a year for your birthday or something)
If you are concerned about sodium in your food at a particular restaurant chain; don't go there often, or at all.
It's still a worthwhile topic to explore. Alot of people don't think twice about these things and probably should.
@@Sarah-eh7bw agreed. It should still be explored.
I believe this is an industry wide issue, not a particular restaurant. If you eat out, you get sodium overdose unless you stick to salad with no dressing.
Shockers? What about the criminal government
I eat out almost everyday for the last 2 years.. I try to eat healthy such as burrito bowls n stuff
Celtic salt and green salt
1:25. Her with her DOORDASH BAGS. 😅
The Big Dipper from Boston pizza has 1500 mg of sodium
You can tell something went wrong with the dish at the end, they didn’t even bother to complete it.
I always like your segments, but was it necessary to use all those small packs of salt? Complaining about sodium, but not the pollution!
Eh.. excessive health nuts should not be used for these pieces, because all they will do is chase people off. What kind of "replacement" is steamed vegetable? Anyone who is willing to eat that will already be doing so, so including that will only put people off the idea. Replacement needs to be alternatives that are as close in taste and enjoyment to the replaced as possible while being health. In this case, that means going for savory, umami and/or spice. Grilled stuff would be much more appropriate, even if they are less healthy than steamed, because people might actually consider it.
I dont understand how people eat out everyday? its so bad for you and expensive. just take 30 min and cook something healthy . ``Then again it explains why there are so many overweight people
sometimes the sauces get you
I never put salt on my foods I cook at home. It tastes better and cost much less. I never do take out unless I am travelling and drink plenty of water to flush out the salt that's in these take outs. Home cooking all the way.
Normally I went to typical Punjabi pizzas 🍕 that just part to appetising. Not eat everyday but moderate
"AND" ON TOP OF ALL THAT SODIUM PLUS PEOPLE DRINK POP
Learn to cook and eat at home MOSTof the time.
Read labels and educate yourself.
Suppers ready!
There’s worst things about these restaurants, sodium is the least of your worries. Make dinner at home is the solution.
Forgot a most important one: add potassium (substitute for some of the sodium). Another option is to use sea salt (mixture of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium).
Yet with the CBC you have to take everything with a pinch of salt.
A pinch? More like a shovel..
@@Byteable The larges salt mines on earth are in Godrich lake Erie where the CBC should have their head office.
@1:30 dieticians are suddenly "Heart Heroes".
Corporations try to scam you....who would have thought?
If you're counting calories and sodium content while eating out, you're eating out too much probably.
1 packet of sodium is equal to roughly 0.5 grams of sodium
Milestones - 1590mg of salt equal to 8 packets of sodium equal to 4 grams of sodium
Boston Pizza - 2520mg of sodium equal to 4 packets equal to 2 grams of sodium
Joey - 2530mg of salt equal to 12.5 packets of sodium to 6.5 grams of sodium
1 gram of sodium is equal to 1000 miligrams of sodium
There fore the math does not add up in this story
Registered dietician and Director of cardiovascular prevention and rehab and they did not catch the basic math in this being presented?
Earls - 3110mg of sodium (12:46 you see the scale at 4.95g equal to 4950mg) announcer 15.5 packets eqaul to 7750mg of sodium
fact of the matter they went off the nutritional details of the restaurant, at no point was the actual sodium content of any of these dishes actually tested nor was any real information provided from any sort of scientific point of view and/or evidence.
I don’t know if I’m the only one who spotted the fact that 3110mg is 3.1 grams, for the vegan kung pao chicken. Please don’t make it look even worst. It is still a huge amount from only one serving, but your journalist pourred more than 4 grams of salt into the bowl. Please be accurate at the very least. Same goes for the chicken fajitas that you pourred more than double the salt for clickbait effect or something. 4300mg is still 4.3 grams, who is doing your maths people???
You are confusing salt, with sodium. Salt is not JUST sodium.
Salt is approx 40% sodium. 3110mg + 60% (to make sodium visually represented by salt aka sodium chloride) = 4976 mg salt which is over 4 grams of salt, almost 5g technically. Who is doing your "maths"?
Indeed, I was, forgot the CL in the NaCl xD@@Canadagraphs
i'm not gonna eat anymore lol
Restaurants need a lot of sodium to have good taste in the food.
Wonder frozen pizzaz....
Look at the nutritional info on the package of frozen pizza
@Chris Ristorante Dr otker is the only frozen pizza that taste decent.
So they said that all this information is publicly available on their websites. So this shouldn’t be a shock. Doing your own research is your responsibility.
That point was addressed here 9:49
FUN FACTS!
* Adults only physiologically need about 400mg sodium/day, which is at least 3x lower than the recommended 1200-1500mg/day, and nearly 10x lower than what people actually consume!
* If you cut your salt intake, food may taste more bland *at first*, but if you stick to it for a month or two, something magical happens: your taste buds adapt and everything starts tasting "normal" again!
* Red Lobster's Admiral's Feast clocks in at 4350mg sodium NOT even factoring in the choice of side and the two free biscuits (390mg each). If you choose fries as the side (1390mg), your total comes to a whopping 6520mg sodium, which is **16 days worth** of sodium in a single meal! And this isn't even the saltiest meal! Heart attack, here I come!! 💔
It's so disturbing isn't it?! I kept getting headaches and couldn't figure out what it was from, turns out it's from sodium packed into so many foods. It's so gross IMHO
@@RavingKats Glad you figured out the cause of your headaches!🤕For other people, their trigger is alcohol, artificial sweeteners, caffeine, or even fatty foods.
CBC should explain the difference between sodium and salt, before using packets of salt to represent amount of sodium. This kind of demonstration may be confusing to everyday consumers since sodium and salt are not necessarily equivalent.
Over priced take out.
This is silly to be honest if your that worries about sodium then don’t eat out .. also the “ warnings” are another thing people will ignore 🤷♀️
Some people wouldn’t. It might help people make more mindful choices. I know it would help me. More information is never a bad thing. Ignore the information if it bothers you.
This is like when anorexics complained about calorie counts on menus.
People eat out for a lot of reasons and some of that includes not being able to cook at home or not having the time to cook.
Edit: Also most food in the grocery store has high sodium so it's not going to solve much of anything.
Who's going to pizza fast food for healthy food.?
As someone who's vegan just because it's plant based that doesn't mean it's healthy. If it's fast food then it's fast food. That's why I eat it because I don't want a healthy at that moment.. If you order a vegan burger you should be well aware that this is still junk food and it still has the calories of junk food. The reason it's vegan is to save animals.
Edit: I am aware that it is healthcare some aspects like lower cholesterol etc. Then it's counterpart but it's still junk food.
Leave it to a Vegan to tell you that they're a Vegan in the first 5 words of every sentence.
Stuff it!
Lazy episode
Why don't you guys cook and eat of your own 😂
Stop with that asinine noise in the background.
How dangerous is your tap water is the question.
19:10 SORRY BUT, THIS GENTLEMAN IS SUPER OVER WEIGHT, HE IS PROBABLY EATING HEALTHIER AT HOME BUT HE HAS TO EAT SMALLER PORTIONS...
GMB reason women getting large
Stop using others' data to create videos, you scammers.
We need more aspartamine in our food.
How many extra Canadians are just suddenly dying? A far more important question…
Apparently this is more important 🤡
Seriously? You couldn't just measure salt from a large container? 15:01 So much waste for no purpose. Time and paper.
Now, take those same dishes and measure them against all the other health benefits they do provide and, well, once a month? I think, if you're not already in the risk zone, you'll be just fine.
*#CBCMarketplace** **#Sodium** **#ChainRestaurants*
What melodrama about nothing. How many people eat at restaurants every day? If I want a no sodium celery stick, I will eat it at home.
So many! You would be surprised how many people I know who eat their lunch out everyday. Especially when I was working downtown in a couple of cities where food was readily available.
Lots of people eat at restaurants daily. Where was the melodrama in this video?
Sodium levels weren’t an issue until our current PM got elected. I’m connecting the dots between salty fries and politics and the findings are incredible.
More unscientific BS from 'experts'.