{"id":166736,"date":"2010-01-11T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/01\/11\/how-to-cut-salt-from-packaged-food-very-quietly\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T15:11:05","slug":"how-to-cut-salt-from-packaged-food-very-quietly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/166736","title":{"rendered":"How to Cut Salt From Packaged Food: Very Quietly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Salt\"New York City said today<\/a> that it’s joining with other cities to push restaurants and packaged food makers to cut the amount of salt<\/a> they use by 25%.<\/p>\n

Food companies have been really into making health claims<\/a> on the front of their products lately. So you’d think that those who choose to go along with the NYC program (which is voluntary) might make a big deal about selling foods with less salt.<\/p>\n

But a story in this morning’s WSJ<\/a> points out that food makers have actually found that they do better when they cut salt without making a big deal about it.<\/p>\n

“Once you start saying you’ve taken salt down, it’s basically equal to, ‘It’s not going to taste good,”‘ Unilever’s North American director of nutrition and health told the WSJ. <\/p>\n

Campbell Soup cut the amount of sodium in a version of V8 juice by about a third over several years without announcing the shift, and ConAgra is in the process of making a similar reduction in the amount of sodium in Chef Boyardee.<\/p>\n

Those reductions are part of a broader cuts some companies are making (though the amount of sodium in packaged foods isn’t declining overall, the WSJ says). ConAgra has said it will cut the amount of sodium in roughly 80% of its foods by 20%, and Sara Lee has also committed to cuts. Campbell says it has cut about a quarter of the sodium from its top selling products since 2001.<\/p>\n

Extra Salt<\/strong>: For more on sodium and heart disease, check out this explainer from the CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo: iStockphoto<\/em><\/p>\n

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New York City said today that it’s joining with other cities to push restaurants and packaged food makers to cut the amount of salt they use by 25%. Food companies have been really into making health claims on the front of their products lately. So you’d think that those who choose to go along with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}