Confused about salt content for a 10 month old???

[iamanewmum31]

I am led to believe that babies should not have any salt. My baby has been eating food I have made myself containing no salt. I have Been using stock cubes with little salt. I give her weetabix but I have read it contains salt. What should I be looking for on the food labels when it cones to salt content on products such as stock cubes, beans, cheese and butter etc?

the guideline is up to 1g up to 1 year. I didnt worry too much about salt in things like bread and cereal and just didnt add salt to anything I cooked for the kids. Weetabix is fairly low salt. You can get special low salt stock cubes to use in food for babies. Re: labels - some give the value as sodium and you need to multiply that by 2.5 to get the salt content.

how much salt should we eat?

more important to look at amount she eats over a day/week than to read labels, iyswim - think about foods that are 'naturally' salty and either limit them or find alternatives.

eg
bread is salty so make sure she only gets it once a day
ditto cheese
and ham
switch to unsalted breakfast cereal (readybrek, porridge or mini shredded wheat)
avoid stock cubes or use reduced salt ones, or liquid stock - this is worth reading labels for.
buy reduced salt & sugar beans
buy unsalted butter (the Lurpak spreadable unsalted is good)

Thank you Seona1973 & MrsBadger that advice is most helpful : )

Meant :)

:)