The survey looked at 664 main meals from 29 popular high street and celebrity restaurants, fast food and cafes chains. The survey found that 347 meals had more than 2.4g of salt per portion – that’s 52% of all meals surveyed that would be labelled in a supermarket with a red traffic light.
Celebrity chef restaurants and high street chain restaurants both came out higher than cafes and fast food chains, partly due to larger portion sizes, with an average of 3.1g salt per meal, half a person’s daily recommended amount of salt. Shockingly, the 13 saltiest main meals in the survey contained more than your entire 6g maximum recommended daily allowance of salt.
Five of the top saltiest main meals:
A selection of main meals from six celebrity chef restaurants were analysed for their salt content Brasserie Blanc (By Raymond Blanc), Dinner (By Heston Blumenthal), Frankies (By Marco Pierre White), Jamie’s Italian (By Jamie Oliver), Fifteen (By Jamie Oliver), Savoy Grill (By Gordon Ramsay).
Out of the small sample of celebrity chef restaurant meals tested, on average Jamie’s Italian had the highest level of salt in their three dishes tested, whilst Heston’s Dinner was shown to have the lowest values of salt, all below 1.5g of salt per dish.
Fast Food outlets – number of dishes containing over 2.4g of salt per portion
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