It will fry the retinas.
Posted on 06/01/2016 9:07:58 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The proposed guidelines, released today, recommend sodium goals by restaurant product or menu item, 150 categories in total, designed with a salt intake goal for Americans in mind.
“Many Americans want to reduce sodium in their diets, but that’s hard to do when much of it is in everyday products we buy in stores and restaurants,” Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said. “Today’s announcement is about putting power back in the hands of consumers, so that they can better control how much salt is in the food they eat and improve their health.”
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit, says it has urged the FDA to reduce salt in foods for 10 years, suing the agency to that effect last fall.
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Why do restaurants have to dump so much salt on salads? Everything doesn’t need to taste like a pound of salt.
Ignoring the incredible over-reach...how effective will this be.
If a restaurant takes the salt out of foods, people will just add (likely more than it originally had) with a salt shaker.
Similar to how I sometimes flush twice with my gumbint mandated toilet, the ill conceived nanny state law will probably have a reverse effect, and people will eat more salt.
I can remember a few years ago, Campbell’s Soup began advertising on the labels the reduced salt content on it’s various kinds. You could easily tell why they began to taste a little bland as a result, so all I did was add the little bit more salt to improve it, when you did not have to before, lol.
They want to cut down on salt again? Thought we already went through this once.
If you don’t like the salt, go to a restaurant that doesn’t use too much salt, problem solved. And we don’t need any frickin’ bureaucrats to solve it.
As I finish my lunch, a Banquet frozen meal, specifically the “Turkey meal” I note that is must be healthy as it contains 61% of my recommended daily allowance of sodium: 1460 mg.
However, it does seem that Banquet could probably just cut that salt in half with minimal effect on taste. I could always reach for the ever present shaker, if I needed more.
(Hard to remove the salt that the manufacturers put in, but easy to add it at the table)
Indeed. I would bring salt with me if need be.
Salt is one of the four food groups.
The restaurants which don’t use salt close down.
Who the he’ll wants bland food? Life is too ahort.
Salt is a preservative so I doubt if they could easily remove that salt and have the package stay fresh for the same duration.
Salt bagels and salt pork will have to be salt free.
[Why do restaurants have to dump so much salt on salads? Everything doesn’t need to taste like a pound of salt.]
Have you ever watched any of the cooking shows on the Food Network? They put salt on EVERYTHING!!!!
I rarely put salt in or on my food I cook and IMO it still tastes good. There are plenty of other things to season food with to enhance flavor but not raise blood pressure.
I highly agree.
Mr. Trump. Please make them go away!
It will fry the retinas.
Yes. I, too, would like to see communities cut down on government.
Adding salt at the table does not always do the trick. Perfect example: pasta or rice. Cook it without salt and it can never recover.
I’ve found more and more restaurant food comes to the table with not enough salt. Then you have to ASK for the salt shaker—they don’t automatically provide it any more.
Anyone ever notice that we have a built-in salt monitor? When something tastes too salty to you it is sometimes because you have enough salt in your body at the time. Sugar works the same way. So does food in general!
“Let me explain to you how you should go to the bathroom ...”
“Let me explain to you how you should salt your food ...”
Naw, salt is just a condiment.
The four food groups are:
1. Chocolate.
2. Cheese.
3. Gravy.
4. Things to put chocolate, cheese, or gravy on.
Salt is one of the four food groups.
I am not sure we understand salt.
It provides a vital nutrient: Iodine.
I lost about 75 pounds over the past 5 years and salt is part of my diet.
But I do not eat out a lot. I’d rather know what is in my food.
Nowadays, its hard not to eat out too as it is very convenient.
Damn Govt stay off my plate and out of my life!
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