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Some meals from top fast food chains conceal "shockingly high" salt levels, researchers have found.

Pizza Hut said the report focused on its most indulgent productsThe worst contain more than double a child's recommended daily salt intake in a single meal, according to campaign group Consensus Action On Salt and Health.

Pizza Hut served up the saltiest dishes of the four fast food chains surveyed.

A family of four sharing one Pizza Hut "pizza plus" meal deal would each eat 12.3g of salt.

The amount is nearly 2.5 times the recommended daily maximum (5g) for seven to 10-year-olds.

Researchers surveyed 346 individual food and drink items and 264 advertised meal combinations at Pizza Hut, KFC, McDonald's and Burger King.

Of these, 21 menu items and 48 meal combinations were aimed specifically at children.

The saltiest children's meal deal was a Pizza Hut kids' chicken "wrap factory" plus soft drink at 4.3g of salt per portion - 142% of a four to six-year-old's daily maximum (3g).

A KFC kids' mini fillet burger meal was the second saltiest children's option at 3.5g per portion.

The children's meal with the lowest salt content was a McDonald's Happy Meal of chicken nuggets and a fruit bag at just 0.6g.

The majority of advertised standard sized meal deals at Burger King and KFC had lower levels of salt than the least salty options advertised by Pizza Hut.

Eating too much salt is linked to increased blood pressure, which in turn can cause strokes and heart attacks.

But a Pizza Hut spokesman said: "As well as focusing on our most indulgent products, this report also contains many factual inaccuracies."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1289035,00.html

Interesting but not unsurprising.