Salt warnings on restaurant menus can encourage healthier choices, study finds

The study was the first real-world randomised controlled trial globally to evaluate salt labelling in a full-service restaurant environment (Anthony Devlin/PA) - (PA Archive)

Salt warnings on restaurant menus can encourage consumers to make healthier choices, a first study into the initiative has suggested.

Researchers have the “strongest evidence to date” that UK consumers see warnings on menus to be effective in discouraging them from ordering options that are high in salt, according to the study by Liverpool University published in The Lancet Public Health.