Healthy salt "5gla" beware of lurking "hidden salt"

Health lasts forever, just eat "5 grams" of salt. The 2020 Healthy Lifestyle Promotion Month has passed halfway, and from the third week it has entered the Salt Reduction Promotion Week, vigorously promoting the concept of "just 5 grams" of salt reduction. Before eating, please calculate your salt intake for the day, and have a warning line in your mind. If you exceed the limit, yell "5 grams!" to yourself to avoid losing too much "salt". We don’t have to have a 5-carat diamond ring, but we must have the “5 grams” salt reduction concept!

Although salt is of great significance to maintaining human health, excessive intake of salt can cause various harms to the human body, including increasing the burden on the heart and kidneys, and increasing the risk of hypertension, osteoporosis, gastric cancer, etc. Risk of disease. At present, people have become aware of adding less salt when cooking, and many families use salt-control spoons to ensure the accuracy of "5 grams." However, there are some foods that contain unexpected amounts of salt that are hard to guard against. Below, let’s take a look at these “little transparents” with salt to solve your “salt” problem.

Dried Noodles

Dried noodles always give people a clear and watery soup. They have a bland and plain feeling, which makes people have the urge to add more toppings and seasonings. In fact, don’t be deceived by its appearance. In order to make the taste more chewy and to facilitate storage after drying, a certain amount of salt is added to the noodles during the processing. The sodium content of most dried noodles on the market is 450-600 mg per 100 grams, and some even reach 1200 mg. If you eat 400 grams of dried noodles, the "5 grams a day" salt limit will be almost used up. Therefore, do not add extra salt when cooking noodles, and drink less noodle soup to avoid the tragedy of "overeating Yangchun noodles". In addition, some white bread, breakfast cereals, cold cuts, etc. are also large sources of hidden salt. You should read the nutrition labels before eating and beware of excessive salt intake.

Sauce

In the two-dimensional world, "sauce" refers to a kind and lovely girl. In reality, all kinds of sauces on the dinner table are equally appetizing and enticing: ketchup, sesame sauce, peanut butter, salad dressing, etc. However, most of these delicious sauces have a high salt content. In order to enhance the flavor of food and stimulate appetite, a large amount of salt is added to sauces, even tomato sauces that rely on sourness are no exception. Therefore, do not regard "sauce" as "little freshness". In essence, they are "heavy food". taste". Of course, in order to cater to health needs, some merchants have launched low-salt or even salt-free versions of sauces. The taste may be a little bland, but it is very friendly to health, so you may wish to change your taste and try the "salt-free version" of the sauce. "Empress".

Ice Cream

Yes, you read that right! As a dessert, ice cream contains salt, because adding salt can interfere with the condensation of water into ice, giving the ice cream a soft texture instead of freezing into ice cubes. Therefore, it is not only the "sea salt" flavored ice cream that contains salt, but they basically all contain salt due to technological needs. In addition, a lot of salt may be added to snacks such as jelly, cheese, cakes, plums, etc. or due to craftsmanship or taste requirements, so please be sure to read the nutrition label before purchasing. What is worth complaining about is that in order to cover up the unnecessary salty taste, ice cream will also add a lot of sugar and cream, resulting in a relatively high content of added sugar and fat. It is simply a reduction of "three reductions-reduce oil, reduce salt, and reduce sugar." All the "thunders" in the diet have been stepped on... Combined with the "healthy living" and "sudden temperature drop" environment in September, everyone might as well take the opportunity to quit it.