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Skipping Salt

Last year, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines made specific recommendations for people, especially African Americans, to cut back on their sodium/salt intake. Too much sodium in our diet can be detrimental to our health, causing a host of problems including high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes, and more. Despite this, many people find it extremely hard to cut back on their salt intake for a variety of reasons.

Many foods being offered today have huge amounts of salt and sodium. With food being increasingly more processed, as well as the popularity of “fast food” and easy to use/cheap snacks, more and more consumers are purchasing items that are full of salt and sodium.

In the instance of some companies trying to lower the salt content of foods, it changes the taste, and that doesn’t always make consumers happy. When a low-salt product isn’t purchased, it’s likely to be taken off the market or changed to include more salt.

Also, many companies rely on heavy salt in their food items to preserve the shelf life of items and to improve the flavor as the product ages.

Kantha Shelke, a chemist who runs the food science consulting company Corvus Blue in Chicago, says, “There are three ingredients one can use when you’re a really lazy food product developer: salt, fat, and sugar.” Salt brings out flavor and can also mask the flavors of bitter and metallic ingredients, so it is used very often.

While sodium and salt are not exactly the same, they are often used interchangeable when people talk about food and salt content. Sodium is actually a component of table salt and accounts for about 40% of the salt we consume. The average person needs a minimum of about 1,500 mg of sodium a day. Most Americans consume three times that amount every single day.

To cut out salt in your diet, be extra conscious of food labels and don’t purchase products with a heavy sodium or salt content. Be aware of percentages and try not to go over your average salt specifications for a day. You can retrain yourself to not need salt by cutting it out completely for a while, and then adding it back in gradually.

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