The survey found some foods contain more than half the daily maximum limit for a six-year-old in a single serving.
It also found a number of sweet foods contain salt. These included Butterkist The Simpsons Honey Nut Popcorn, Kellogg’s Chocotastic Poptarts and Heinz Treacle Sponge Pudding.
CASH, which carried out the survey with parenting website Netmums, is urging parents to check labels carefully and to stop buying very salty foods for their children.
It also wants manufacturers to lower the amount of salt they put into children’s food and provide clear labelling.
Professor Graham MacGregor, chairman of CASH, said: "We know that a lot of work has been done by some companies to reduce salt in products eaten by children.
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