One easy trick....
Or, ya know, genuine Celtic Sea Salt.
KCl tastes awful. There are mixtures of NaCl and KCl, but they too taste awful.
We’ve had this Potassium salt substitute available for many decades. Morton’s salt has one available. And there was brand called No-Salt at least as far back as the 1970s.
I am not sure, though, how much can be used especially for some people with existing conditions. Some people with CV disease are advised to watch their potassium intake. Me, for one. I get plenty potassium from Bananas and Avocados and carrots and leafy greens. Not sure how much is too much. Was on an RX Potassium tablet for 30 days after a heart attack but the doctor was clear that once my levels returned to normal to stop taking them.
Thanks for posting. I have cut way back on salt intake and this article points to another tool available.
Sodium intake is a far smaller problem than total caloric intake, lack of exercise, and lack of adequate sleep.
Don’t eat fast food. Don’t eat frozen food. Shop the perimeter of your grocery store.
Eat mainly animal, vegetable , and fruit.
Move. Try to have fun while moving.
Sleep 8 hours.
Google says......
Are potassium salts healthy?
De Santis explained that “potassium chloride is not an essential part of a healthy diet.” In fact, for people on multiple medications or with poor kidney health, it could have a negative effect on their health.May 23, 2019
I did go on to read other disadvantages as well as benefits.
The bottom line for me and everyone else..... Just reduce your sodium intake.
Why not just reduce sodium intake? It’s not the salt that causes hypertension, its the increased fluid retention in the body. Alternatively, or simultaneously, why not increase your intake of potassium via food or supplements? Finally, if fluid retention is indeed a basis for high blood pressure, why is the health and medical community constantly harping about drinking lots and lots of water through the day?
Well gee. Must be next to the other foods people don't eat much of. If you need to make the switch, you will find it if its on the shelf. I guess what they are trying to do is get an entire society to change based on the results of 3 test subjects. They'll have to do more - and they'll have to carve out some people who should probably avoid it, or avoid both.
As for me, vinegar tastes better and so I use that for most raw foods like salads and avocados and hard boiled eggs and even in my home-made pasta sauce.
Already use it.
As I understand it, the problem ain’t wholly the amount of sodium consumed, but rather the ratios of the electrolytes in your system.
Oh, there’s a relation between potassium levels and sodium levels in the human body? Who knew? Apparently not the morons who call themselves doctors in this country. God help the people out there who lack a curious mind. They’re all being slowly killed.
Sounds like good advice
bull.
salt does not cause hypertension.
it raises BP when there is an underlying cause, like diet among other things.
This is nothing new.
Potassium does lower blood pressure and also regulates blood sugar. Eat a banana.
Through all of human history they’ve consumed far more salt than we do today. Most people are walking around salt deficient. When you go in to the emergency room the first thing they do is get you started on a bag of IV saline solution. The paramedics often hang it on you right at the scene. No testing to see if your sodium level is high low whatever. Right away they put in a bag. That’s 9000 mg of sodium, four times the recommended daily allowance.
Related:
Danger of salt substitutes that contain potassium in patients with renal failure
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124926/
BFL
KCl is vilely bitter. I wouldn’t cook with it.
Indian food is a good low salt cuisine. Its flavor elements are acid, spice, heat. As opposed to Chinese which very simplified is salt/umami, ginger, garlic.
Cook with wine and you don’t need asmuch salt.
My observation is that those that are short of Potassium don’t mind the taste difference. I take medication that tends to deplete my potassium reserves and have to take supplements occasionally. If I am “good” with my potassium levels, the salt substitute is ... underwhelming. If I am low, I can hardly taste the difference.