Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Do you love salt but strive to reduce its consumption? You may think that it is an impossible task, especially when you are shopping for your household food needs.
However, the Public Health Authority in Saudi Arabia, through its official account on Twitter, published some tips to replace your usual shopping list with a list that is less salty.
The usual shopping list:
Instant foods high in salt
Pieces of frozen fried chicken
Frozen potato fingers
salad dressing
Tomato paste
Cheese-like
Corrected shopping list:
Fresh ingredients to prepare nutritious, low-salt foods at home
Fresh chicken breast
Fresh fries
Fresh lemon/herbs and spices
Fresh tomatoes
Salt-free fresh cheese
The Public Health Authority recommended, via Twitter, consuming less than 5 grams of salt, which is equivalent to less than 2,000 milligrams of sodium, per day.
Salt has many names, and it is important to know them to facilitate reading the food label for each product, and to know the percentage of salt before making a decision to buy a product, according to what was published on the official account of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (FDA) on the “Twitter” website.
Here are some of the labels you should pay attention to:
the salt
Sodium
Sodium phosphate
sea salt
Sodium nitrate
Sodium benzoate
Sodium bicarbonate
Monosodium glutamate
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