Thank you to our Salt Awareness Week supporters Early Start Nutrition, British Dietetics Association and LEYF who have also written blogs or resources for Salt Awareness Week. 

How to Add Flavour Without Using Salt

Like adults, children can develop a preference for salty foods, and may refuse foods without added salt, and shape their eating habits in later life. It’s especially important that babies don’t have salt added to their food, as their kidneys are not fully developed to process it.

You may worry that without the presence of salt, the meals you serve to children will be bland and unexciting. However, there are so many ways to add extra flavour to the food that you prepare for children... read more here

Empowering Chef’s to Reduce Salt – by Sean Cowden, Chef Lecturer at LEYF’s Chef Academy

Cooking a meal without salt! Any high-flying chef will tell you the same thing – “It’s bland. It needs more salt.”

At the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) Chef Academy we teach chefs to let the natural flavours of meat, vegetables, herbs and spices do the talking. If you go back a few generations, not many families would use salt in their cooking. You would typically have your meat, potato and two vegetables. Thankfully, we have come away from that old routine, accepting more diverse cuisine into our lives. However, with more restaurants than ever and easily accessible “ready meals” and “fast food”, our salt intake has increased dramatically over the years, as have our tastes and apparent need for it... read more here

Salt: Food Fact Sheet

This Food Fact Sheet looks at salt in our diet, how to identify foods containing too much salt and tips to moderate salt consumption and improve your health... read more here