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A quarter of sliced meats sold in major supermarkets are saltier than seawater, a study has found.
Researchers analysed 555 ready-to-eat cooked meats such as ham or salami, finding an 'appalling' failure to meet national salt reduction targets.
They revealed two-thirds of chilled sliced meats are 'dangerously high' in salt, having 1.5g per 100g and scoring a red on the traffic light labelling system.
Less than 1 per cent are low or green.
One in four products are saltier than Atlantic seawater, which has 2.5g of salt per 100g, according to experts from Action On Salt based at Queen Mary University of London.
From Spanish chorizo to Wiltshire roast ham, these are the ready-to-eat meats with more salt per 100g than Atlantic seawater - stocked by the nation's major supermarkets
The study revealed that Waitrose is the worst offender, with 93 per cent of its 'own
