FDA contemplating crackdown on salt

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Soup is one of the easiest things to make from scratch, why would anyone buy it in a can? Most tinned goods taste like the tin they came out of...plus salt. Well the constructed foods anyway. Tinned tuna is ok.

They line the cans these days so the food doesn't have that tin taste anymore. Canned food has its place...a wonderful way to store food for long periods of time.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Darn. There goes my love for French Fries.

I think if we all ate less processed foods, we could shake the salt shaker more often without fear of overdosing on sodium. Salt isn't bad except in large doses.

yup. Always taste your food before you salt it too. I see people do the opposite. It makes no sense.

[JODO 2]

Darn. There goes my love for French Fries.

I think if we all ate less processed foods, we could shake the salt shaker more often without fear of overdosing on sodium. Salt isn't bad except in large doses.

yup. Always taste your food before you salt it too. I see people do the opposite. It makes no sense.

yep

[Jasman0717 9]

I know I eat too much salt. As kids we used to carry rock salt in our pants when we went to church and would suck on the rocks.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Crackdown on salt? That cool as long as they don't touch the salt that goes on the rim of my margarita glass.

[Peikko 1,575]

If only that were true (re canned foods don't taste tinny). I don't think I have yet had a can of soup that doesn't taste of the tin odd, and yet the boxes are ok. I want to like tinned soup, TJ's do pea and ham and lentil which should be great as a store cupboard stand by...alas, they are disgusting!

I do buy canned beans, tomatos and tuna and can't taste the tinniness, so I have to wonder what about the processing/storing of tinned soups is so 'wrong'

Edited November 30, 2007 by Purple_Hibiscus

[Marilyn. 340]

mmm Progresso canned soups are good...

of course homemade soup is the best.. but for a quick lunch Progresso canned soup is great

[MissStacey 1]

mmm Progresso canned soups are good...

of course homemade soup is the best.. but for a quick lunch Progresso canned soup is great

I had progresso chicken noodle for lunch today!

[Marilyn. 340]

mmm Progresso canned soups are good...

of course homemade soup is the best.. but for a quick lunch Progresso canned soup is great

I had progresso chicken noodle for lunch today!

mmmm yum

i like the vegetable soup... yum yum!! oh and the light Italian vegetable soup is good too

[Fandango 1,439]

'crackdown'...what a crock of shiznit.

They should crack down on fillers and chemical additives, HFCS, etc...

They should crack down on the awful process in which they approve drugs meant to help people, only for them to kill thousands of people.

They need to get out of the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies.

But instead, they choose salt. What a crock of #######.

[Marilyn. 340]

If only that were true (re canned foods don't taste tinny). I don't think I have yet had a can of soup that doesn't taste of the tin odd, and yet the boxes are ok. I want to like tinned soup, TJ's do pea and ham and lentil which should be great as a store cupboard stand by...alas, they are disgusting!

I do buy canned beans, tomatos and tuna and can't taste the tinniness, so I have to wonder what about the processing/storing of tinned soups is so 'wrong'

mmm, they don't taste tinny to me

[Peikko 1,575]

It's probably me.

Yes Lisa, there are many, many things that the FDA could and should be trying to control as well as salt intake. However, I don't think it's a crock to try to reduce heart problems by reducing the amount of salt that a company can legally put into processed foods, particulary if there is a direct correlation between over consumption of salt and coronary disease, which there does appear to be. It may not be the absolute priority but it's not the least important thing either.

However, if you are suggesting that they are using the salt issue as a sop to fob people off into thinking that the FDA is achieving something while they continue to let the pharmaceutical industry play fast and loose, well I don't think I'd argue against that.

[Fandango 1,439]

It's probably me.

Yes Lisa, there are many, many things that the FDA could and should be trying to control as well as salt intake. However, I don't think it's a crock to try to reduce heart problems by reducing the amount of salt that a company can legally put into processed foods, particulary if there is a direct correlation between over consumption of salt and coronary disease, which there does appear to be. It may not be the absolute priority but it's not the least important thing either.

However, if you are suggesting that they are using the salt issue as a sop to fob people off into thinking that the FDA is achieving something while they continue to let the pharmaceutical industry play fast and loose, well I don't think I'd argue against that.

On the scale of importance, I'd rate salt as the lowest in priority as opposed to the other things I mentioned.

My beloved grandmother was killed from a drug 'fast tracked' and put on the mkt after it killed a few of the healthy ppl in the trials. It wasn't a drug to fight cancer, HIV, or anything else time sensitive which would req a fast track approval. It was for diabetes. And it was only some 'new and improved' version of something else that was tried and tested and avail for about a decade. It killed ONE person in the UK and was yanked immediatey off the shelves....it killed over 400 here, and caused around 14000 liver problems.

Ask yourself WHY does that arthritis medicine's small print on tv say that side effects may include LYMPHOMA. Or why we even have medical ads on tv in the first place. We can't go buy it in the store ourselves...so shouldn't my doc know what to prescribe without me playing armchair doc because I saw an advert on tv where a woman ran thru a field? Hey, we can cure your toenail fungus, but wait for the fast talking fine print where it MAY cause an irregular heartbeat, nightsweats, liver failure, and/or violent and sudden diarrhea.

Or why Americans are the fattest we've ever been...there's sugar added to ketchup for fock's sake. Or the countless lab created binders and fillers in normal foods. All the chemicals we eat every day, hormones, etc.

And yet the FDA wants to crack down on salt. Gimme a break.

Sorry for the rant, it's obviously something close to my heart.

[Cassie 8]

I wish they'd go after HFCS myself, but whatever!

I never realized how salty things were until after I came home from being in the hospital for a month, during which time I was on a semi-restricted diet (pureed everything, yeehaw). I had two bites of canned beans and I nearly gagged, they were so disgustingly salty. I used to scarf down potato chips like nobody's business, but now I can only eat a couple of handfuls. If people cut down on processed foods, they wouldn't have to worry about how much sodium is in their diet.

[Peikko 1,575]

No, I agree, I thought I made that part clear?

I just don't think one should discount the validity of the salt issue even though the other issues are equally, if not more pertinant.

Personally, I think the pharmecuetical industry is one of the biggest scandals in the US and I personally believe that the manufacture of drugs is 99% about making money, and 1% about helping those who are suffering because of illness which is appaling in my opinion.