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
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:02AM
Grandpa Crawford really had a hard time when he got the doctor's orders to adopt a no-sodium diet.
I was in high school then, I figured I'd be better off kicking salt when I was young rather than on death's door in my golden years.
It's true that food is really unappealing at first. But the reason we salt our food is that we salt our food. That is, if you don't salt your food at all, after a month or so it mostly tastes the same as if you salted it.
I no longer have a no-salt diet, but I never salt my food at the table. There are very few foods that I salt during cooking. What salt I consume is mostly from hot sauce.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @07:39AM
It's the other way around with me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:16PM
What hot sauce you consume is mostly from salt???????