How much added salt?!

I've been incredibly thirsty this evening. Thinking back I realised that I used a chicken stock cube in my dinner today for the first time in years. Mentioning no names but it has an X in the middle.

I heard a programme on the radio recently and believed that the cubes contained boiled-down animal left-overs plus some dry ingredients. I had a lot of confidence in the name.

I don't have to work it out from 'sodium' content and 'salt equivalent' (whatever that is) because the pack helpfully goes on to tell me that each cube contains 1.59g of salt. The picture above shows that amount.

Even if I added a little salt to my cooking I'd consider that amount ridiculous. Come on, cube people, your pack says "for flavoursome cooking". Let that come from the food itself, not from an unbelievable amount of flavour enhancer.

pancake mix? Really?

Which would you rather your pancakes were made of - egg, milk & flour or salt, dextrose, vegetabe fat and powdered ingredients (plus the carbon footprint of a plastic bottle thrown in)?
Is adding water to one of these and shaking it up really any easier than putting milk, flour and an egg into a container and mixing it with a fork?

To be fair, the small supermarket in the photo did have real lemons and eggs alongside, but I do object to this. It's not as green, I don't believe it's as healthy and there's no need.