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It’s very important to try to get out of the habit of using salt in this way.
Salt is also called sodium chloride, and it’s the sodium in salt that can be dangerous to your health. Almost everyone eats some types of processed food during a noraml day. Even people who make all their own meals from scratch will usually buy foods such as bread and biscuits and these can be high in salt/sodium. Look for the word ‘sodium’ on the labels, it comes in many forms.
Foods that are usually high in salt Baked beans Biscuits – sweet and savoury Breakfast cereals Cooking sauces Hot chocolate Pizza Ready meals Soups Tinned spaghetti Tinned vegetables and pulses (with added salt) Soy sauce Stock cubes Yeast extract Anchovies Bacon Cheese Chips / French Fries (if salt added) Crisps / Potoato Chips Gravy granules Olives Pickles Pretzels Salted and dry roasted nuts Salted fish Sausages Smoked meat and fish Bread, breakfast cereals, biscuits, cakes and meat products such as bacon, sausages and ham are some of the main sources of salt in people’s diet.
(Breakfast cereals vary greatly in their salt/sodium content – so check the labels carefully.) Some foods contain other forms of sodium, used as flavour enhancers and raising agents, such as ‘monosodium glutamate’ and ‘sodium bicarbonate’. You need to look out for sodium in ALL IT’S DIFFERENT TYPES. If you know how much sodium is in a food, you can work out roughly the amount of salt it contains by multiplying the sodium by 2.5.
Checking food labels as you go round the Supermarket may be time consuming and boring, but once you’ve done it a few times it’ll become easier and quicker. The benefit of lowering your blood pressure is surely worth a few extra minutes while food shopping. Use Herbs instead of Salt as part of a Low Sodium Diet As part of a high blood pressure diet you should try to limit consumption of high-sodium processed foods and move to a low sodium foods based diet.
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Source: (salt and blood pressure) http://www.blood-pressure-diet.com/salt-high-blood-pressure.php