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FDA Calls for Lower Sodium Content in Restaurant and Manufactured Food

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:Argue about it all you want... (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:42AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:42AM (#380535)

  And I'll continue to pour my little white tadpole friends directly into your raw hole. Together, we may well be able to make the legendary, the fabled, the elusive, feces soup!

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