Some foods are "naturally high in sodium" and some foods are "inevitably high in sodium".

Ready-to-eat seafood Because seawater is salty, drying and baking will concentrate the salt, so all kinds of dried seafood are "natural high sodium" foods. Some seafood products may be processed into snacks and side dishes with salt and monosodium glutamate. Such as instant seaweed, grilled fish fillets and so on. In addition, all kinds of pickled foods, such as pickled octopus, pickled dried small fish and pickled Undaria pinnatifida, are "inevitably high in sodium".

Cooked meat cooked fish products Chinese ham, sausage, western ham, ham sausage, bacon, bacon and other meat processed products.

Salty snacks, spicy strips, pickled chicken feet, beef jerky, salted plum, etc.

Flavor seasoning, soup seasoning, chicken powder, seafood soup powder, mushroom sauce, hot sauce, sand tea sauce, tomato sauce, oyster sauce, shrimp sauce and other condiments as well as pickles, pickles and fermented bean curd.

Point 2: Food with salty taste but high sodium content.

Many foods taste salty, but they contain a lot of sodium.

When making biscuits and bread biscuits, in order to be loose and porous, sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) should be added, and its sodium content is not lower than salt (sodium chloride). When making bread, add salt to control the growth rate of yeast, even sweet bread will add salt.

In order to make noodles, noodles, dumpling skins, wonton skins, salt will be added to noodle products, and even sodium carbonate (soda ash) will be added to many products.

Sodium-containing Drinks Some sweet drinks contain sodium because a small amount of salt, sodium bicarbonate (for foaming) or sodium phosphate (for enhancing the taste) is added.

Point 3: Understand the ingredient list and choose the original food.

How do you know that salt is added to food? The easiest way is to look at the ingredient list on the food label and try to choose products that do not contain sodium.

For example, when buying nuts, the ingredient list of some products only lists the raw materials of nuts, and there are no other ingredients, that is, ordinary nuts, whose sodium content is usually very low, and the content per 100 g will not exceed 100 mg (natural foods will also contain trace amounts of sodium). If there is "salt" in the ingredient list, there are other food additives containing sodium, that is, seasoning nuts.

For those who need to control salt, the original product without salt can be directly selected.

Point 4: Understand the nutrient composition table and choose low-sodium food.

Add salt to everything, which one adds more salt and which one adds less salt? Look carefully at the "nutrient composition table" on the label.

The conversion of sodium salt is as follows: 1 g salt = 1000 mg sodium chloride =393.2 mg sodium; 1000 mg sodium =2543 mg sodium chloride =2.54 g salt.

Whether it comes from salt (sodium chloride), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), soda ash (sodium carbonate) or caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), all sodium can be converted together.

Although it is a bit troublesome to convert sodium into salt, choosing food is actually very simple: look directly at whose sodium content is high. Among similar products, products with high sodium content can be replaced by products with low sodium content.

Of course, it does not mean that all foods containing salt and sodium cannot be bought. On the contrary, we should give priority to products with low sodium.

The above contents refer to Guangming. Com- clearly understand the four points of salt restriction.