Regulating Americans Salt Intake - The Real Culprit is Hidden Salt
Some samples of "hidden salt" from my pantry:
Dinty Moore Beef Stew 15 oz. 970 mg salt (sodium)
Hunt's Tomato Sauce 8 oz. 360 mg salt (sodium)
Mrs. Grimes chili beans 15 oz 330 salt (sodium)
HyVee More Fruit Cherry 21 oz. 25 mg salt (sodium)
JELL-O gelatin 3 oz package 80 mg salt (sodium)
Surprised? Regulating people's salt shakers isn't the answer. It is the processed food that needs regulating. Try finding processed foods that are made with no salt or very little salt. Its very hard. We can a lot of our food without salt and we don't add salt while cooking. The Real Salt is on the table and to each his own.
Some come at this as another government regulation that will strangle us. I see it as finally taking the companies that make our food to task. Over the years the sodium levels have crept up to these high levels in our food. The only way to get away from it was to spend a long time reading labels or to can your own food or go strictly fresh fruit and fresh vegetables and meat. How many people can do that?
There is a big difference between the salt that is processed and Real Salt. Real Salt is not ground finely and pure white. Real Salt, and other brands that do not overly process their salt, have left the natural minerals intact.
We don't need the food companies to salt our food for us. If home canning can accomplish a safe food product without all of the salt, why can't they? The push for good health may actually accomplish this for the American public.
Our bodies need salt. People regulate their salt intake when their hand is on the salt shaker. I am all for this regulating of salt. I think news programs show be specific though. I think they need to stress that this is the "hidden" salt in processed foods and not the salt shaker on Americans tables that will be regulated.
Published by Sherry Tomfeld
Gardening and food preservation are her passion, she has been doing both for 30 years.Working thousands of head of hogs, raising cattle, goats and chickens to being lead cook in a 90 resident nursing home. S... View profile
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