The Salty Six for Kids Infographic

• About 90% of kids eat too much sodium.
  
  
• Kids’ preferences for salt-tasting foods are shaped early in life.
   
• Parents and caregivers can help lower sodium by influencing how foods are produced, purchased, prepared and served.
   
• Foods that add the most sodium to the diet, ages 6-18
  1. Pizza
  2. Bread/rolls
  3. Cold cuts/cured meats
  4. Savory snacks
  5. Sandwiches
  6. Cheese
      
• The sodium kids eat comes from every meal and snack:
  • 15% at breakfast
  • 30% at lunch
  • 39% at dinner
  • 16% at snack time
     
• Most of the sodium kids eat is already in the foods they get from: grocery stores, restaurants, school cafeterias and not from the salt shaker.

Learn more at heart.org/sodium

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/children-sodium/ Vital Signs Sodium Intake Among U.S. School-Aged Children – 2009-2010

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