FDA wants to cut sodium in packaged and processed foods by about 20%

Now do the same for sugar

How about 50%. Also do sugar and probably saturated fat. Also ban high fructose corn syrup.

I feel like I recall a story about a chip company that slowly reduced their salt content by like 50% over a number of years and literally no one noticed or complained.

I definitely saw another story about how they were researching pyramid-shaped salt crystals because they have higher surface area to volume, and with cuboid salt you wind up swallowing it before the whole thing even dissolves, so you're not even getting a theoretical flavor experience, it's just going straight into your gut.

We eat too much salt. It's absurd.

As someone who has always been on a low-sodium diet, but who nonetheless has a hankering for processed food, thank fuck.

Everything has become so ridiculously salty, if you aren’t already used to the salt, that it’s largely inedible. It would otherwise be really good, but holy shit.

If we can get people consuming less salt in some places, they will want less in other places as well, maybe food as a whole will be less salty.. that would be a win in every single way for everyone. Everyone who regularly eats with me tends to want less salt in their food overall as a result, so I know it works, and it doesn’t even take that long.

Thats great, but can we do high fructose corn syrup next? That shit is just evil on multiple levels.

I like chips and guac, but every time I go to the store and the low sodium chips are out of stock...I don't buy chips.

Once you get used to it the regular ones are disgustingly salty.

great hopefully next they reduce plastic by 100%

They'll up the chloride content by 40% to compensate, though.

It's especially bad, in my experience, with plant-based foods that they're trying to make taste like meat.

I had the Impossible Whopper once... it was almost like eating a soft block of salt.

No, not my salt and vinegar kettle chips! 😭

Is this going to turn into conservatives freaking out and just eating salt shakers to prove how not-woke they are?

It's really annoying how every attempt to make things better seems to be met with "fuck you I refuse to acknowledge anything beyond my short term comfort"

The risks of sodium aren't universal (some people appear to have immunity), and were exaggerated by the sugar industry.

Homing in on a single number at a time is like plugging one leak and having another spring up. The laser focus on reducing fat, for example, led to foods using more salt and sugar to compensate and that created other problems. We need a more holistic approach to diet.

Who cares about sodium, can we get rid of high fructose corn syrup? I mean reducing sodium sounds good, but it's not even on the same playing field

It’s not just the chips that are the problem (although many brands are so salty they burn my mouth) , everyone knows they’re salted.

Hopefully this includes the chicken nuggets and other prepared foods that not everyone realizes are high in sodium

I was frustrated by the lack of low sodium options in processed foods before I cut them out entirely.

Sigh, ok.

Tell the intern to order three more semis of corn syrup.

*cries in spironolactone*

Good.

If I can’t buy a packet of crisps (‘chips’ for the yanks btw ;) ) and get a 10” pink Himalayan salt crystal in the bag, I don’t know what the world is coming to.

What does it matter? FDA is an agency and scotus just made all agencies entirely toothless.

Keto people argue about sodium.

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I don't know who the fuck is eating this garbage but I think whoever they are does not care about sodium

Just let me die fat, you bastards

Do we already know what manufacturers would replace it with to maintain flavour? Eg in the past when manufacturers had to cut down on fat, they've replaced it with sugar and hydrogenated oils?

Are people still buying this disgusting trash? Wow.

This is so dumb. You can't fix this problem at the packaging level. You have to convince people to eat less, or eat smarter.

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