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American Heart Association says Americans on average have 3500mg sodium which is ~9g salt. I'd guess that's mostly from snacks and side dishes, plus salt used
by rendaw 2y ago
American Heart Association says Americans on average have 3500mg sodium which is ~9g salt. I'd guess that's mostly from snacks and side dishes, plus salt used in less-recognizable ways during food production? If you have an upper outlier of 6g I'd say you have a fairly rare diet.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoNo, I made an error, since I didn't differentiate "salt" from sodium, of course since where I'm from sodium is generally what is labeled for daily intake and not chloride, even though the daily recommended is equimolar[0]. [0]https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7009052/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7009052/
- adrian_b 2y agoWhen you cook your own food, it is pretty normal to eat only 5 to 6 g of salt per day. Only when you buy food made industrially it becomes very unlikely to reach a so low daily intake of salt.
- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoI’ve been prescribed medication for hypertension for years now. Thankfully the outcome has been a consistently well controlled and more-or-less normal range of blood pressure. My spouse has put in a lot of work to help me get to a point where I’m not actively avoiding added salt or sodium. Where once the DASH diet and 150/90 made me really scared to season a dish, now I don’t shy away from reaching for the salt, or borderline starve myself of sodium. The point that my spouse made was precisely yours: almost every meal we make is home made (and kudos to my spouse for being our de facto and a fantastic cook). I cannot imagine 10+ grams of salt a day.