Is food getting saltier or is it just me ?

Toomuchstuff

Toomuchstuff

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I never minded salt in my food ... but it seems like just lately , I'm tasting so much salt in food,that I can hardly eat some things anymore. Hot dogs,cheese and even frozen pizza ,things I've eaten all my life ,now seem unusually salty to me. Even ---- HEAVEN FORBID --> Bacon is even starting to taste overly salted to me !!! I'm wondering if the companies are trying to get a longer shelf life out of their products , so they just salt it up. Canned soup is another salt bomb. Yuck ! I'm glad some things have a low sodium option , that's what I'm starting to buy now. Do you notice it,too ? Am I imagining this ? :rolleyes:
 

Try to avoid canned vegetables which are loaded with salt. Take a look at the Ingredients label and see how much Sodium is in the can of most vegetables.
 

I noticed that also. I think it is because in my younger years I used quite a bit of salt while cooking and sometimes added more at the table. For the past several years I use next to none. Actually after reading this post I have to remember to get the salt shaker out for my Easter dinner in case my company wants it. I'm not even sure where I stuffed away.
 
Prepackaged foods are always too salty which is why I try to avoid them.
I don’t add any salt in my food so when I eat these foods I get excessively thirsty.
Then of course there’s all the nitrates and thirst quenching added chemicals that play havoc to our systems.
These can cause blood pressure spikes.

I take my health quite seriously so try and eat freshly prepared food from home.
 
I guess I expect it in processed foods but I hate to go to a restaurant and the food is oversalted.
I don't eat as often out anymore so I'm less used to a lot of salt. Maybe that's what's happening toomuchstuff.
 
It is a conundrum for sure. I mean most of us do not 'shoot' or catch our meat. Also we do not grow our veggies. As such we are at the mercy [or lack of] of the food industry. Add to that, at advancing age we @ some point might well reach an age where we no longer really feel like preparing "meals" ...so we do so less & less?

Don't know about the rest of you but...there are many days when i just do not want a "meal" ....just a bite-to-eat. That usually means fast food / carry-out, canned soup / food. [Probably not the best for us?] And that in it's self becomes a double edge sword..less portion?..but as well less nutrition .

I suppose the best we can do...is the best we can do? Continue to juggle as we likely do already, and hope we choose correctly. Sharing information here is likely helpful. I have reached the conclusion that there is no magic solution, path , or potion. What works for one , may not for another....

Best of luck too us all !
 
I'm not sure if foods are being processed with more salt these days or not. I eat no salt & low salt foods when possible. Since I do eat this way, foods that are not low salt taste very salty to me. I don't eat processed food so that does help salt-wise, of course.
 
Below is the kind of information we get in our packaged
food, we get told how much sugar etc. has been added
it is a guide and really helps,

I thought that we normally follow the USA, but maybe not.

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Mike.
 
We only buy Lightly Salted chips now. We don't buy frozen foods anymore, especially after we read how much sodium is in them. We don't eat that much at restaurants, but even when we do, don't notice anything overly salted. I like salt more than my wife does, but definitely don't pour it on food.
 
I like salt, but I agree that a lot of foods we buy these days are overloaded with sodium. I've tried a couple of low sodium soups, and they just don't taste very good to me.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I like salt, but I agree that a lot of foods we buy these days are overloaded with sodium. I've tried a couple of low sodium soups, and they just don't taste very good to me.
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And there in lies the other part of the problem...a big part. If the food does not taste good to us? Most [of] us won't eat it. And I doubt that aspect of it can be changed?
 
rgp said:
It is a conundrum for sure. I mean most of us do not 'shoot' or catch our meat. Also we do not grow our veggies. As such we are at the mercy [or lack of] of the food industry. Add to that, at advancing age we @ some point might well reach an age where we no longer really feel like preparing "meals" ...so we do so less & less?

Don't know about the rest of you but...there are many days when i just do not want a "meal" ....just a bite-to-eat. That usually means fast food / carry-out, canned soup / food. [Probably not the best for us?] And that in it'sself becomes a double edge sword..less portion?..but as well less nutrition .

I suppose the best we can do...is the best we can do? Continue to juggle as we likely do already, and hope we choose correctly. Sharing information here is likely helpful. I have reached the conclusion that there is no magic solution, path , or potion. What works for one , may not for another....

Best of luck too us all !
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I have those days too!

I toss a bag of steamable mixed vegetables into the microwave and in six minutes my problem is solved. Yes, I add salt, pepper, butter and a good squirt of hot sauce, LOL!!!
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I don't really notice the salty taste of processed food but I'm always shocked at the amount of sodium and sugar that is added to many processed foods.

I also have trouble understanding why it costs more to buy processed foods that do not have added salt or sugar.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I like salt, but I agree that a lot of foods we buy these days are overloaded with sodium. I've tried a couple of low sodium soups, and they just don't taste very good to me.
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I don't like low sodium soup either, but prepare my own soup from scratch and it's delicious.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I like salt, but I agree that a lot of foods we buy these days are overloaded with sodium. I've tried a couple of low sodium soups, and they just don't taste very good to me.
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I like salt, too. I seldom finds things too salty for me. :D I cook most of our meals but I don't spare the salt.
 
I taste my food for salt (or whatever) while I am cooking it. If it needs more, I add it, so we rarely need to add more at table unless I messed up. I do like salt. It make everything taste better.
 
Anything in the can or box is way too salty for us... I buy lower salt bacon. Anything in the can I buy no salt added. It is strange.
 
If you are a person that has cut back on salt. Everything tastes salty. The packaging hasn't changed.Maybe it's something else instead of sodium chloride like mono sodium glutamate.

i take coffee without sugar. If I get it with sugar by mistake it tastes awful.
 
I eat very little salt, since I cook 90% of my own meals (I'm a gourmet vegan chef) and never use salt. I always check sodium content on anything I buy, pre-packaged, which accounts for, maybe, one purchase a month, if that. I buy fresh veggies, mostly.
 
I am a lacto-ovo vegetarian and cook from scratch most of my meals, eat one portion and freeze the rest. I was told my BP is high so I started cutting down on salt and after that everything not home cooked tastes salty. But, I use very little processed food, except for cheese (big cheese lover). I even use little sugar. My daughter always rolls her eyes when I complain something is too salty or too sweet, yet I'm always shocked seeing how much of each she uses. Wonder if she'll change when she's my age? I think age has to do with the sensitivity, too.
 
Mike, we do get the amounts of sodium, calories, etc. but I've never seen that color-coded format. It's nice, I wish we had it.

I find that I'm using little or no salt on my food, so either the food is getting more salt added than it used to, or maybe our tastes change as we get older? I have returned many items to the grocery shelf, which I was tempted to buy until I read the sodium content. Ye gads, some of them are through the roof!
 
I have the opposite 'problem' - I think food manufacturers seem to be reducing salt to the extent that it lacks taste.

Now as for LoSalt , which substitutes some sodium for potassium 'salt', this extract was taken from the British Medical Journal...

We recommend that patients with impaired renal potassium excretion due to renal disease, especially those taking angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, potassium sparing diuretics, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, should be warned by their doctors and dieticians about the danger of hyperkalaemia. Prescribers of these drugs to such patients should inquire about their use of potassium-containing salt substitutes. The product information of salt substitutes containing potassium should also include clearer warnings.
 
Everyone be aware the federal rules governing labeling is not truthful and feel free to look it up. Despite many changes forced on the food companies they are still hiding the truth when it comes to entering everything in their foods. As far as canned veggies go always rinse then with plenty of water to wash away a lot of sodium. Why so much sodium in so many products? Flavor. I can't stomach mot of the sodium free or low sodium products like tomato juice and ketchup.

"NoSalt" I have been using it for decades in place of salt. 1/4 teaspoon of salt has 590mg sodium but NoSalt has "0"
 

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