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posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 26 2016, @10:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the salty-tale dept.

The FDA is asking food makers and eating establishments to voluntarily reduce salt levels in their products to help reduce Americans' high salt intake.

The draft guidelines target these sources of salt with the goal of reducing Americans' average daily salt intake from 3,400 milligrams (mg) a day to 2,300 mg a day.

[...] Currently, 90 percent of American adults consume more salt than recommended, the FDA pointed out.

[...] The public has until the fall to comment on the FDA's voluntary salt guidelines for food manufacturers and restaurants.

The FDA claims that people can always add more salt to their food, which is true, but they ignore that salt changes how food is cooked and adding salt to the surface of food affects taste differently than when it is evenly distributed.

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=197193

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_salt


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:41AM (#380534)

    sugar = fat
    salt = water retention

    Look I love me some salt. My family jokes I can eat a salt shaker and not blink. My blood pressure is typically low. Mostly political junk gets it going. :)

    Now given that. It is terribly easy to go overboard with salt. Some things actually need salt to cook correctly. If you use chocolate in anything there better be a bit of salt in there or it just will not setup correctly and probably more than you would think is needed. Butter is another one that is terribly maligned. Even though I love salt I buy non-salted butter. Why? Because the salt actually changes the butter into holding more water and blanches out the taste of the butter. I only learned this recently and think that is what is ruining some of the things I have been trying to cook.

    The one that ticks me off is sugar. That sucker has 20 different names to 'hide' from consumers. There is a reason for that. The biggest ones they like to use sugar is either apple or pear juice. It can then be called 'natural'. As it is pretty sweet has a nice flavor and blends in nicely with just about anything else. It is amazing how many things out there have sugar in it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:43PM (#380712)

    The one that ticks me off is sugar. That sucker has 20 different names to 'hide' from consumers.

    Partly as sugar is a family of molecules: sucrose, glucose, fructose, dextrose, etc.

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday July 28 2016, @05:01AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday July 28 2016, @05:01AM (#381053) Journal

    Salt added to butter acts as a preservative, and when the butter does spoil, salt may hide the off taste.