Nursery World - Unique Child Healthy Eating: Ready salted

Children being offered too much salt are benefiting from a parent education project, reports Jackie Cosh.

In a supermarket in Leicester, a group of young mothers walk around, studying labels and taking mental notes of foods with 'traffic light' labelling systems and what they mean.

The group are part of the National Children's Bureau's project, All Salted?: Reducing Salt Intake in Young Parents and Their Children. It is part of the Food Standard Agency's national campaign to reduce salt in the nation's diet.

There are approximately 50,000 mothers aged under 20 in England. Studies have found that this group are more likely to have a diet high in salt, to eat more convenience meals and fast food, and lack the cooking skills or equipment to prepare fresh food. By providing these women with information on salt, the project aims to help them make more informed decisions about what they feed their children.

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