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If food producers are forced to lower salt content of the everyday groceries you buy off the shelves in the store; you're going to see a lot of people completely disgusted with the taste of that food, lol.
They will just find or create another cheap additive to make up for it.
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Originally Posted by guidoLaMoto
De gustibus non est disputandum. (Old Chinese proverb.)
I do make my own sauce, with and without the sugar. I personally prefer it, but I gotta admit, it doesn't make nearly as big a difference as the salt I add.. The added sugar doesn't make it taste sweet-- It just cuts the unfavorable acid taste.
That depends on the tomato variety. If you are using a high acid variety, a little sugar might be needed for balance. For sauce, I prefer the roma which is low acid so no sugar needed, for me anyway. Roma also has meaty texture and few seeds. Hard to beat the flavor for a sauce.
As someone who was not brought up in the US, all snack items in the US taste extraordinarily sweet AND salty to me.
Yes, living outside the U.S. for a few years now, we think the same when we do come across processed foods that come from or mimic the U.S. So we just avoid processed foods.
I don't like the bread here ("Bimbo" brand is prevalent) but I recall that in Europe, bread/wheat was totally different and even gluten-intolerant folks could eat it over there. Wonderful bread!
We went wild with imported cheeses a few weeks ago in a distant city, so got some local crackers to go with them and they tasted SO salty we could barely eat them. It had been years since we'd had crackers and our favorites used to be "Nut Thins" that were not too salty.
The FDA is pseudoscience . The actions of its bureaucrats are authoritarian, not scientific. There is no empirical or scientific evidence that the agency improves anyone’s health or well-being in any way.
Bingo. Most of us under age 60 who are into health and fitness know that salt isn't a problem for most people--it's the Food Pyramid scheme MyPlate of metabolic syndrome brought to you by the USDA.
They'd be more helpful if they started calling grains livestock fatteners.
Bingo. Most of us under age 60 who are into health and fitness know that salt isn't a problem for most people--it's the Food Pyramid scheme MyPlate of metabolic syndrome brought to you by the USDA.
They'd be more helpful if they started calling grains livestock fatteners.
I have done the exact opposite of what the food plate/pyramid suggests for nearly 15 years, and my overall health is much better overall. The excessive grain consumption, especially wheat, just promotes more obesity, bigger profits for pharmaceutical companies, and higher healthcare costs for everyone.
The food scientists developing recipes for food manufacturers know how alluring are sugar, salt, fat and mouth feel of manufactured food.
We've been studied and tested, like lab rats, in developing irresistible foods of little nutritional value--but high profits!
Our challenge is personal choice and resistance.
I've found the best line of defense is to not bring them into the house--because once in the home, not over-eating them is too difficult for us.
Remember the potato chip advertising Bet You Can't Eat Just One.??
No, we can't...unless we're super-human in our will power.
Avoid the snack food and beverage aisles and be healthy!
These are just excuses and playing the victim card. People either simply don’t care what they eat or they are too lazy to put in the work to eat healthy.
Read the Salt Fix book. We need more adequate salt levels not less salt. Without taking a measurement of how much salt intake and how much salt we lose a day the FDA is still setting people for failure.
FDA Food pyramid is a complete JOKE.
Yes, listen to the FDA and have 6-11 servings of bread, pastas, and rice and see what that does for your body. So each day you are supposed to eat 3 bagles, or 6 slices of bread, or 6 cups of pastas, atleast.
Read the Salt Fix book. We need more adequate salt levels not less salt. Without taking a measurement of how much salt intake and how much salt we lose a day the FDA is still setting people for failure.
FDA Food pyramid is a complete JOKE.
Yes, listen to the FDA and have 6-11 servings of bread, pastas, and rice and see what that does for your body. So each day you are supposed to eat 3 bagles, or 6 slices of bread, or 6 cups of pastas, atleast.
FDA promotes appetite stimulating wheat, all of which are high glycemic junk food items that cause deleterious health issues. I also strongly disagree with daily calorie consumption since many people work sedentary jobs. 1,500 calories or less a day is perfectly adequate for a higher protein/low carb diet for those that avoid the appetite stimulating foods entirely.
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