The Sodium Scoreboard.Sodium sticker shock Sticker shock is a United States term for the feeling of surprise experienced by consumers upon finding unexpectedly high prices on the price tags (stickers) of products they are considering purchasing. . That's what you may feel as you scan this list of sodium levels in foods, especially the restaurant foods. While it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have difficult to do much about those, here are four tips to help you navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. salt-laden supermarket aisles: 1. Make it yourself, Most unprocessed foods are low in sodium. So the less you rely on packaged foods, the less sodium you'll you'll Contraction of you will. you'll you will or you shall you'll will eat. And you'll get to savor the genuine pleasures of a homemade home·made adj. 1. Made or prepared in the home: homemade pie. 2. Made by oneself. 3. Crudely or simply made. Adj. 1. salad dressing, spaghetti spaghetti: see pasta. sauce, bread, or vegetable or bean bean, name applied to the seeds of leguminous trees and shrubs and to various leguminous plants of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) with edible seeds or seed pods (legumes). The genera and species encompassed by the term bean are many and variable. soup. 2. Look for lower-sodium brands. Just because Prego Prego® is a trade mark brand name pasta sauce of Campbell Soup Company. It was introduced in 1981 internationally and is based on a family recipe of one of the chefs. Eventually they became the number one selling dry grocery product of the decade. Traditional Pasta While the only basic difference between these names is the shape of the pasta, each pasta is typically matched with a particular sauce based on cooking time, consistency, ability to hold sauce, ease of eating, etc. Sauce has 1,320 mg of sodium per cup doesn't does·n't Contraction of does not. mean that all spaghetti sauces have that much. A cup of Healthy Choice Traditional Pasta Sauce, for example, has 780 mg. Enrico's (delicious) No Salt Added Pasta Sauce has just 110 mg. The same goes for breads, crackers, frozen dinners, pretzels, soups, and just about every other packaged food in the supermarket. In restaurants, there's no label to check, but in supermarkets, you'd you'd 1. Contraction of you had. 2. Contraction of you would. you'd you had or you would you'd have ~would better shop around. 3. Look for "low-sodium," "reduced-sodium," or "healthy" foods. You can find beans See JavaBeans. , breads, crackers, pretzels, soups, and other foods labeled "low sodium" (less than 140 mg per serving). A "reduced sodium" food must have at least 25 percent less sodium than usual, so the sodium savings can range from terrific to trivial TRIVIAL. Of small importance. It is a rule in equity that a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as being below the dignity of the court. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4237. See Hopk. R. 112; 4 John. Ch. 183; 4 Paige, 364. . Healthy Choice, Campbell's Healthy Request, and other foods with "healthy" on the label contain no more than 480 mg of sodium per serving for individual foods and 600 mg for frozen dinners, meal kits, or other "meal-type" foods. And cutting sodium by 50 percent is one way a food can make a "light" (or "lite (spelling) lite - (Misspelling of "light", when used to mean "lightweight") A suffix denoting a scaled-down or crippled product, often designed to be distributed without charge, e.g. on a magazine coverdisk. An example is pklite. ") claim (like Kikkoman Lite Soy Sauce), though cutting fat or calories is a more common reason for the claim. 4. The less processed, the better. Less processed usually means less sodium. For example, any natural cheese (cheddar Cheddar, village, Somerset, SW England. It is chiefly a tourist center. Limestone is quarried, and strawberries are grown. Nearby Cheddar Gorge towers c.400 ft (120 m) high, with imposing limestone cliffs and numerous caves from which relics of prehistoric man have , Swiss, mozzarella moz·za·rel·la n. A mild white Italian cheese that has a rubbery texture and is often eaten melted, as on pizza. [Italian, diminutive of mozza, a cut, mozzarella, from mozzare, , etc.) has less sodium than a processed cheese like American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of or Cheez Whiz Cheez Whiz is a thick processed cheese sauce or spread introduced by Kraft Foods in 1953. The bright, yellow, viscous liquid usually comes in a glass jar, and is used as a topping for corn chips, hot dogs, cheesesteaks, and other foods. . Quick or old-fashioned old-fash·ioned adj. 1. Of a style or method formerly in vogue; outdated. 2. Attached to or favoring methods, ideas, or customs of an earlier time: old-fashioned parents. n. oatmeal has less sodium than instant (Quaker Quick takes only one minute). Fresh cooked turkey has less sodium than processed turkey slices. Food Sodium Supermarket Foods (mg) Quaker Oats Quick oatmeal (1 cup prepared) 0 Barley, bulgur, pasta, or rice, cooked (1 cup) less than 10 Beans, dried, cooked (1/2 cup) or tofu (3 oz.) less than 10 Fruit, canned, dried, fresh, or frozen less than 10 Fruit juice (1 cup) less than 10 Nuts and seeds, unsalted (1 oz.) less than 10 Eggs, cooked (1) 60 Vegetables, fresh, raw or cooked less than 75 Triscuit, Low Sodium (7 crackers--1 oz.) 75 Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Regular Flavor (1 packet) 80 Wheat Thins, Low Sodium (16 crackers--1 oz.) 80 Meat, poultry, or fish, fresh, cooked (3 oz.) less than 90 Enrico's No Salt Added Pasta Sauce (1 cup) 110(*) Milk (1 cup) 125(*) Yogurt (8 oz.) 160(*) Triscuit, Original (7 crackers--1 oz.) 170 Cheese, cheddar (1 oz.) 180 Lay's Classic Potato Chips (20 chips--1 oz.) 180(*) Tuna, canned, drained (2 oz.) 200 General Mills Wheaties (1 cup) 220 Ritz Crackers (10 crackers--1 oz.) 270 Wheat Thins, Original (16 crackers--1 oz.) 270(*) Bread, white or whole-wheat (2 slices) 280 General Mills Cheerios (1 cup) 280 Kraft Ranch salad dressing (2 Tbs.) 290 Cheese, American (1 slice--3/4 oz.) 300 Shellfish, fresh, cooked (3 oz.) less than 360 Nabisco Original Premium Saltine Crackers (10--1 oz.) 380 Pickle, dill 11 spear--1 oz.) 380(*) Bread, pumpernickel or rye (2 slices) 390 Cottage cheese (% cup) 420(*) Oscar Mayer Wiener (1) 440 Campbell's Healthy Request Chicken Noodle or Tomato Soup (1 cup) 450 Healthy Choice Bologna (2 slices) 480 Kraft Zesty Italian salad dressing (2 Tbs.) 510 Health Choice Chicken Parmigiana (1 dinner--11 oz.) 550 Raid Gold Classic Style Thins (9 pretzels--1 oz.) 560 Stouffer's Lean Cuisine Macaroni & Cheese (1 dinner--10 oz.) 560 Healthy Choice Beef Tips Portabello (1 dinner--11 oz.) 600 Oscar Mayer Bologna (2 slices) 600 Soy sauce, reduced sodium (1 Tbs.) 600 Campbell's Condensed Soup, Tomato (1 cup) 710 Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Original (1 cup prepared) 750 Oscar Mayer Baked-Cooked Ham (3 slices) 760 Healthy Choice Garlic & Herb or Traditional Pasta Sauce (1 cup) 780 Soy sauce (1 Tbs.,) 870 Campbell's Condensed Soup, Chicken Noodle (1 cup) 890 Totino's Crisp Crust Pizza, Pepperoni (1/2 pizza) 910 Stouffer's Lasagna with Meat and Sauce (1 dinner--10 oz.) 1,050 Nissin Cup Noodles, Chicken (1 container) 1,170 Prego Traditional Pasta Sauce (1 cup) 1,320 Stouffer's Macaroni & Cheese (1 dinner--12 oz.) 1,490 Uncle Ben's Mexican Style Bowl, Southwest Style Chicken (1) 1,810 Salt (1 tsp.) 2,330 Restaurant Foods Taco Bell Taco (1) 330 McDonald's French Fries (super size) 390 KFC Biscuit (1) 560 Crispy chicken tacos (2) 720 Burger King Whopper (1) 900 McDonald's Chicken McGrill Sandwich (1) 970 Roast beef sandwich with mustard (9 oz.) 990 Taco Bell Bean Burrito (1) 1,080 McDonald's Big Mac (1) 1,100 KFC Original Recipe Breast (1) 1,120 Subway Turkey Breast Sub (6-inch) 1,170 Burger King French Fries (king size) 1,180 Pizza Hut Pan Pizza, Veggie Lover's (2 slices) 1,200 Stuffed potato skins (8 skins--12 oz.) 1,270 McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese (1) 1,310 Tuna salad sandwich (11 oz.) 1,320 Turkey sandwich with mustard (9 oz.) 1,410 Chicken Caesar salad with dressing (4 cups) 1,490 Fried clams (8 oz.) 1,660 Chicken burrito (14 1/2 oz.) 1,740 Buffalo wings (12 wings--13 oz.) 1,750 Fried mozzarella sticks (9 sticks--8 oz.) 1,890 Corned beef sandwich with mustard (9 oz.) 1,920 Lasagna (2 cups) 2,060 KFC Chunky Chicken Pot Pie (1) 2,160 Spaghetti with meatballs (3 1/2 cups) 2,210 Ham sandwich with mustard (9 oz.) 2,340 Szechuan shrimp with rice (3 1/2 cups) 2,460 Kung pao chicken with rice (4 1/2 cups) 2,610 Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust Pizza, Meat Lover's (2 slices) 2,850 Beef and broccoli with rice (4 cups) 3,150 Reuben sandwich (14 oz.) 3,270 House lo mein (4% cups) 3,460 Chicken fajitas with tortillas (4), beans, rice, and guacamole 3,660 Cheese fries (4 cups--27 oz.) 4,020 (*) Average Chart compiled by Ingrid Van Tuinen. Sources: USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. , manufacturers, and CSPI CSPI Center for Science in the Public Interest CSPI Corporate Service Price Index CSPI Cumulative Schedule Performance Index restaurant studies. |
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