Does the fast food industry use a lot of salt to cover poor food hygiene?

Question

I found this link at the BBC very disturbing -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7050585.stm

When fast food came to England from America in the 80's it was good that outlets were clean and open all hours, but the problems with them quickly appeared. The streets around became littered as they used packaging to shift the cost of washing up on to the community. Many of the outlets seemed to rapidly become scruffy and the staff seemed ill trained. This makes me wonder about health. Salt and sugar are preservatives, are they being used to stop infection following bad food hygiene? What are their food processing factories really like. I note that MacDonalds is trying here, and if pushed I will eat there in an emergency but generally I avoid fast food like the plague. I also hate the fact you can't order small (normal) portions and coffee, what's with the Starbucks megacup thing. We just order one coffee and share, but still don't like the upsizing and cookie laiden menus.

Answer 1

I would think mostly to cover up the fact the food tastes disgusting and to increase thirst and appetite so you spend more.

If you are concerned about hygiene, you can always report them to the health inspectors.

I would not recommend eating fast food; it is full of fat, sugar and salt, so even if you are not overweight, it is doing damage to your body.

Answer 2

1

Answer 3

Salt also masks unpleasant tastes in food.

Thats why artificial salt wasn't the winner the scientists expected... cause it did everything real salt did except for masking bad tastes in food.

Answer 4

Salt is used to give inferior ingredients some flavour

Answer 5

They use it to mask any unpleasant odors and to get you thirsty so that you buy more soda (soft drinks) which - make you eat more by making you hungrier.

Answer 6

THEY used to add lots of salt to make you get more drinks as big profit in them

Answer 7

no