{"id":30759,"date":"2025-07-29T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30759\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:32:15","slug":"salt-warnings-on-menus-should-follow-calorie-counts-to-clamp-down-on-poor-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30759\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt warnings on menus should follow calorie counts to clamp down on poor health,…"},"content":{"rendered":"

28 July 2025, 22:30<\/p>\n

\"Salt<\/p>\n

Salt warnings should be put on restaurant menus to encourage consumers to make healthier choices, a new study says.<\/p>\n

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Salt warnings should be put on restaurant menus to encourage consumers to make healthier choices, a new study says.<\/p>\n

Researchers say they have the “strongest evidence to date” that UK consumers are discouraged from ordering options that are high in salt by menu warnings. <\/p>\n

The study by Liverpool University, published in The Lancet Public Health, consisted of an online trial with 2,391 UK adults who were alerted about dishes exceeding 50% of the recommended UK daily salt limit of 6g.<\/p>\n

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Researchers say that salt warning labels were perceived by participants as effective in discouraging selection of high-salt items and reduced salt ordered by 0.26g per meal.<\/p>\n

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Researchers say they have the “strongest evidence to date” that UK consumers are discouraged from ordering options that are high in salt by menu warnings. .<\/p>\n

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In a real-world trial at a Liverpool restaurant with 454 participants, labelled menus prompted greater awareness of salt content when ordering and reduced the salt ordered by 0.54g per meal.<\/p>\n

Across both trials, labels were found to be equally effective regardless of age, sex or education level.<\/p>\n

Dr Rebecca Evans, the study’s lead author, said: “Our study has found that salt warning labels on menus help people make healthier choices.<\/p>\n

“Given that excess salt intake is a leading cause of diet-related disease, this kind of labelling policy could play a vital role in improving population health.<\/p>\n

“This study demonstrates that even small nudges at the point of purchase can encourage healthier choices.”<\/p>\n

The research team said the study was the first real-world randomised controlled trial globally to evaluate salt labelling in a full-service restaurant environment.<\/p>\n

Sonia Pombo, from Action on Salt, said: “This important new study adds to the growing evidence that clear and visible salt warning labels on menus can positively influence consumer choices and reduce salt intake.<\/p>\n

“Eating out is no longer an occasional indulgence – it’s a routine part of daily life. Yet many meals are loaded with salt, often without our knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n

“If we’re serious about protecting public health and saving lives, salt reduction must be front and centre of the UK’s food policy agenda.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"28 July 2025, 22:30 Salt warnings should be put on restaurant menus to encourage consumers to make healthier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-30759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}