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Your Tongue Isn't the Always Best Judge Most of us know that there is a lot of salt and sugar added to our foods, but your taste buds aren't the best judge of whether someone it high in sodium or sugar. Maximum recommendations for sodium is 2,400 milligrams per day. And people who suffer from high blood pressure should take considerably less: 1,500 to 2,000 milligrams per day. Unfortunately, you can't always trust your taste buds to tell you whether something is high in salt. Many "lower" sodium snacks, such as popcorn, peanuts, or potato chips, taste saltier than other foods that actually contain dangerously high levels of sodium. Here are some foods that have high levels of sodium but don't taste salty: Danish pastry, instant pudding, most canned vegetables and soups, and many boxed breakfast cereals. The reason why you not taste the salt is because other flavors, natural or added mask the taste of salt. Sugar suffers from the same problem. Two tablespoons of ketchup, for example, contains more sugar than a can of Coca Cola or Pepsi. A cup of Breyer's Vanilla Yogurt contains almost twice as many grams of sugar than does a half cup serving of Ben and Jerry's Vanilla Ice Cream. Most fruit drinks contain more sugar than a candy bar or hot fudge sundae. This doesn't mean that there aren't benefits from the added nutrients put in the fruit drinks, but if you are counting on taste to tell you how sugary something is, don't count on it. The solution: read your labels. They'll tell you how much
sodium and sugar you are actually putting into your body.
Janelle Barlow, Author
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