Posted on 11/11/2024 5:40:03 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Some foods are sirens of sodium—you know as soon as you see them that they're loaded with salt. Pickles, salted nuts, bacon, and fried foods all stand out as obvious sodium bombshells. With other foods, though, sodium content isn't so immediately clear. Unless you're a diligent label reader, you might not realize that multiple common grocery items are sneakily high in this nutrient.
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Mr. mm is on a salt restricted diet.
I make my own soup. I and he can salt to preference.
Salt in canning is strictly for taste.
I can both hot water bath and pressure can, and salt is NOT necessary for preservation and does not affect longevity.
I’ve had home canned goods last years, also.
Soup is one of the easiest things to cook from raw fresh ingredients. It has exactly the amount of salt you, the cook, choose to put in it.
Genetics can be a bitch. I can do everything in my power to eat right, get exercise, etc, but I can’t overcome my genetics. I can work on it, but I can’t get rid of the influence they have on my system. I’m stuck with what the good Lord gave me. (My issue is heart disease on both sides). So far, knock on wood, I’m in a good place, but I also know that there could be a ticking time bomb just waiting to go off.
(Because they are using the salt as a preservative.)
Works very well and it’s cheap
It is not secretly loaded with salt. It is on the label. If one is literate and not stupid just read the damn label. Oddly canned soup is one of the worst. I eat it anytime I wish as I am blessed with low blood pressure. If you are not, read the damn label.
>> Since salt has been debunked as a health concern
Plus, you can TASTE salt. Just pay attention.
I don’t add salt to my food, in general, so I’m not sweating it. No pun intended.
I know sugar helps with fruit.
My canning books say that salt is only for taste.
I never heard of canning with brandy, but I think that the alcohol would evaporate during processing.
High fructose corn syrup and canola oil are the main 2 franken-foods I try to avoid.
Actually, when you “OD on water,” you get sick and die from hyponatremia, a low sodium level. The salt concentration in your body gets diluted to a dangerously low level.
Actually i think it was Texas gator that set this in motion. I try to be courteous in my posts but am fallible.
No secret there.
I made brandied cherries one year and they were quite potent. To the point that I only used a quarter of what I had planed to use in the cake (used frozen for the rest) and even that was too much. But we are lightweights.
Is there another kind?
“Can you please elaborate? Is it harmful to eat less that twice the recommended amount?”
It’s definitely harmful to eat less than the recommended amount of sodium. This study is one of many showing it. The ‘recommended’ amount of sodium is 2300 milligrams, the study here shows that the all-cause mortality at 2300 mg is definitely on the upside, and that less is worse.
As to twice the recommendation, the curve is pretty much flat, and still far better than 2300 mg, and only slightly worse than the minimum, around 3500 mg (higher for older people).
Keep in mind that this is “All-Cause Mortality”, meaning they don’t care how you died, but only that you died. This is in contrast to generally accepted health markers, like blood pressure, which will go up if you have a lot of salt, but you’ll still longer because other processes (likely some we don’t even know) improve.
It’s very similar, in my opinion, to the claim that eggs and fat kill you...well because people who die often have cholesterol in their arteries and excess fat in their bodies. After 50 years of ignoring studies that could never prove these associations, even the medical community is waking up and grudgingly admitting that they had it all wrong, and that NEITHER are harmful in their own right, but rather carbs are the main culprit. It’s very, very, hard to change “Accepted Science”, even when it’s totally wrong.
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-17582-8
“Huge amounts of anything are generally bad for you - even water. It IS possible to OD on water. Comment is slightly misguided.”
Fair point, I did generalize to healthy people, but the studies are out there, such as the one that I link to in my prior comment. Kidney issues open a can of worms, especially regarding blood pressure.
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