I tried the UK’s ‘saltiest’ sandwich – here’s what I learned
Health correspondent James Gallagher absorbs more than the recommended daily limit in just one meal to find out how salt affects our bodies.

“But the amount we need is actually very, very small in the grand scheme of things,” Sonia Pombo, a researcher at Queen Mary University of London and head of research at Action on Salt and & Sugar, tells me, “especially in comparison to the amount of salt we’re actually eating.”