Word: sodium
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...Some nutritionists consider it a diet food. Despite the Italian maxim Quel che non ammazza ingrassa (What doesn't kill you fattens you), plain pasta contains no more calories than rice or potatoes. It has protein, phosphorus, calcium, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, iron and potassium, but is low in sodium...
Fresh oranges, grapefruit and their respective juices are very low-sodium foods. For example, a 6-oz. serving of either grapefruit juice or orange juice contains only 2 mg of sodium, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
...Kellogg Co. wants to clarify your statement "Baked goods and cereals are the No. 1 source of sodium in the diet of many Americans." Ready-to-eat cereals contribute only 2.9% of the sodium from food; cooked cereals, 2%; and all other baked goods, 27.2% (U.S.D.A., 1977-78). While the total grain food category may add a considerable amount of sodium to the diet, ready-to-eat and hot cereals, as consumers know them, provide only 5%. Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats? cereal is low in sodium (only 5 mg per 1-oz. serving) and is readily available...
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...salt cooking you need a chart detailing the sodium content of various foods. Such charts are included in most low-sodium or no-salt cookbooks. The best tables are in a book titled Composition of Foods, Agriculture Handbook No. 8, U S Department of Agriculture. You can get it from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. The cost is $7, check or money order. The charts are totally comprehensible. I am an ignoramus when it comes to mathematics, but I mastered those charts within seconds...