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It’s worse than it looks. Each serving has 540 mg of sodium and there are 6 servings in the can. So yes, they’ll forbid grocers from placing these in the checkout areas. Still, I can’t remember ever seeing cans of garbanzo beans being marketed as impulse-buy items anyway. Usually it’s candy bars and beef jerky and such.
“...prohibiting products with over 5 grams of added sugar or 250mg of sodium from checkout aisles...”
Is that per package, or per serving size? Crappy reporting, or just that the city council didn’t think about it? Because all you have to do is raise the serving sizes, or, sell smaller sizes of junk food to get around this useless control freak rule. I used to eat a lot of candy. One day I just decided to stop. I rarely, if ever, bought it on impulse in a checkout aisle. I sought it out. And then I stopped. My choice. Not the stores’, not the government’s.
Draining and rinsing canned beans reduces sodium about 40%. That makes it not a bad food cuz high in protein and fiber. I add them to salads.