Though you might be using less salt while cooking, you also need to be careful about the hidden salts you consume through processed foods.
“The WHO recommends not to consume more than 5 grams of salt every day, which is roughly half of what on average people consume in the world. You can get salt from what you add to foods at home, or you can get salt from the manufacture of products,” says Dr Francesco Branca, the Director of the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development in the World Health Organization, Geneva. In a recent episode of Science in 5, he explained that most of the salt that we consume comes from processed foods and has urged people to cut down the intake of salt in order to keep the body healthy.
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