More than a third of children’s restaurant meals still exceed salt target

Research found many restaurant dishes still exceeded the government-set target of 1.71g of salt in children’s meals, to be achieved by the end of the year. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

More than a third of children’s main meals sold in restaurants still exceed the government’s maximum salt target, with Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Wetherspoon’s and Prezzo among the worst offenders, a survey suggests.

Action on Salt found that 37% of children’s main meals sold in the “out of home” sector exceeded the government-set maximum target of 1.71g of salt, to be achieved by the end of the year.