Half of pizzas on sale in the UK contain a whole day’s allowance of salt

Action on Salt noted that some brands of pizza had increased their salt levels since a similar survey in 2014. Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock

Half the pizzas eaten in Britain contain all of the salt that government scientists say we should be eating in a day, new research reveals.

Nutritional analysis of 1,387 different pizzas bought in shops, supermarkets, takeaways and restaurants shows that one of the Domino’s range has more than three days’ worth of salt in it.