Ever wondered how much salt is in the kiddies meal?
The World Action Group on Salt found that eight out of 10 meals had more than one gram of salt, which is the maximum believed to be healthy for a four-to-six-year-old, reported TimesLive.
A South African KFC kids’ meal – a burger and chips – was one of 10 saltiest meals on a list of more than 160.
According to the World Action Group on Salt, the KFC treat contained almost 3g of salt. This was the entire recommended daily amount for a child of six.
“With one in 10 children suffering from high blood pressure, we simply cannot afford to allow such high levels of salt in popular children’s meals,” Christelle Crickmore, manager of the Heart and Stroke Foundation SA said.
South African KFC children’s meals had a higher salt content than McDonald’s, which averaged about 1.9g per meal.
But McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets in South Africa were the third-saltiest Chicken McNuggets among 29 countries.
The action group used nutritional information provided by food chains’ websites or menus to calculate how much salt was in the food.
The worst country was Costa Rica, where the KFC Popcorn Nuggets children’s meal had an estimated 5.34g of salt, more than the recommended adult daily allowance. The same meal in Britain had only 0.9g of salt.
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