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If you're consuming too much salt, try cutting back on these everyday high-in-salt foods
If you’ve got too much salt in your diet, don’t just blame the usual suspects
Canadians eat too much salt, largely due to our over-consumption of fast foods, processed meats, deli meats and canned foods.
However, these obvious offenders aren’t the only sources of excess salt. In fact, sodium occurs naturally in many healthy foods – even in our water.
Check out the sodium in these everyday foods:
An easy way to identify high-salt foods is to read labels and watch for words like pickled, cured, smoked or soy sauce. Look for the % Daily Value (DV) on the label; if it contains less than 5% sodium per serving, it’s low in salt.
Originally published in Wellness Matters, Canada Wide Media’s quarterly newsletter on health and wellness.