date:Jun 22, 2012
The new report, put together by the UK Government agencyreveals that estimated salt intake for adults aged 19 to 64 years was 8.1g per day in 2011.
The report, which uses urinary sodium excretion to assess salt intake, adds that men had a mean estimated intake of 9.3g per day, whilst women had an average intake of 6.8g per day.
Despite the reductions in intake from previous assessments, 70% of the 547 adults assessed had a daily intake of salt higher than the Wold Health Organisation (WHO) r