Title page
Contents
About Public Health England 2
Executive summary 4
Introduction 8
Background to the UK salt reduction programme 8
Dietary sodium intakes and sources 9
2017 salt targets 10
Methodology 12
Data sources 12
Data analysis 12
Summary results 15
Analysis of salt content: achievement of 2017 targets 15
Analysis of salt content: achievement of 2017 targets for main contributors to sodium in the diet 24
Conclusion 27
Acknowledgements 28
Appendix 1: 2017 salt targets 29
Appendix 2: Detailed methodology 43
Appendix 3: Businesses supplying data for the eating out of home sector 53
Appendix 4: Summary results tables for the in-home and eating out of home sectors 55
Appendix 5/Appendix 7: Supplementary analysis 70
References 72
Table 1. Percentage contribution of food groups to average daily sodium intake for adults aged 19-64 years (NDNS Years 7-8) 10
Table 2. Summary of achievement of average targets by product category for retailers and manufacturers, separately and combined 17
Table 3. Proportion of products at or below maximum targets (sodium per 100g) for the out of home sector compared with manufacturers and retailers 23
Table 4. Achievement of average and maximum targets for the top 15 dietary sodium contributing salt target sub-categories 25
Figure 1. Proportion of average targets met for salt sub-categories 15
Figure 2. Proportion of products at/below maximum salt targets, by category: in-home sector (manufacturers and retailers combined) 19
Figure 3. Proportion of products at/below maximum targets, by category: manufacturers 20
Figure 4. Proportion of products at/below maximum salt targets, by category: retailers 21
Figure 5. Proportion of products at/below maximum salt targets, by category: out of home sector 22
Table 1. Salt reduction targets 2017 29
Table 2. Salt reduction targets for the out of home sector 2017 39
Table 1. Businesses providing nutrition information for products available in 2017 in the out of home sector 53
Appendix 4: Summary results tables for the in-home and eating out of home sectors 56
Table 1. Sub-category results for manufacturers and retailers against the 2017 salt targets set for all sectors 56
Table 2. Sub-category results for the eating out of home sector against the 2017 salt targets set specifically for the out of home sector 64
Table 3. Sub-category results for the eating out of home sector against the maximum 2017 salt targets set for all sectors 66
Appendix 5/Appendix 7: Supplementary analysis 71
Table 1. Average salt content for the top 15 dietary sodium contributing salt target sub-categories 71