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... today’s busy lifestyles leave little time to prepare meals from fresh ingredients, resulting in the popularity of ready prepared meals ... ” it is currently recommended by the food safety authority of ireland that irish adults consume no more than 4 grams of salt per day ... however, the average irish adult consumes between 9 and 10 grams of salt daily ... a recent survey of salt levels in ready meals conducted by teagasc food research ashtown revealed that the average irish ready meal contained 71 per cent of the recommended dietary allowance (rda) for salt ... in fact, 58 out of the 67 ready meals surveyed contained 50 per cent or greater of the rda ... alternatives to salt in conjunction with the university of limerick (ul), and industrial partners dawn fresh foods and allinall ingredients ltd, researchers at teagasc food research ashtown are using herbs and spices as substitutes for flavour lost through the removal of salt from three popular chilled ready meals ... initial work at teagasc food research ashtown used a trained sensory panel to conduct flavour profile analysis of popular commercial ready meals and their low salt equivalents to identify flavour differences arising from salt reduction ... acceptability scores were used to identify the most acceptable spices and addition concentrations for each meal, and this information was used in the invention of several spice combinations ... benefits to industry “results from this study can be used to significantly reduce salt levels in ready meals without influencing consumer acceptability from a flavour viewpoint,” concluded dr brunton