Interesting quiz at The New York Times: Salt Is Hiding Everywhere. Can You Spot It? (gift link)
Test your knowledge of which foods have more sodium than others.
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Reminds me of the factoid that McD’s apple pie had more salt than a big mac. I think that also applied to the shake.
While I think I may have taken that already, let’s see…
K. Hadn’t. Aced it anyway. Just pick what you think would ideally be the ‘healthier’ choice (not that most of them are anywhere near ‘healthy’).
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that quiz is being discussed here too
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I got 9 out of 10 - and the one I got wrong I KNEW I was going to get wrong, but I made that choice anyway.
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Speaking of salt hiding everywhere, today I glanced at the nutritional label for frozen shrimp, Santa Monica something brand. 800mg in 4 oz! Sure enough, the ingredients list includes salt. I normally have two of them at a sitting, still far too high. I’ll have to check the labels on alternatives.
ETA: this is raw, tail-on shrimp, not cooked. I guess they brined them.
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I don’t think the shrimp were brined.
Shrimp, as a saltwater creature, is just naturally going to be high in sodium. And any additional salt added would only be a preservative, not as a flavoring or quasi-cooking (brining) agent.
Even non-treated raw shrimp will have relatively high levels of sodium, say, compared to salmon.
Typical raw, fresh shrimp will have as much 200mg of sodium per 100 grams, compared to 35-40mg of sodium per 100 grams of fresh salmon.
So,
This product had four times that amount. I can live with 100mg per 2oz portion. Also,
doesn’t agree with
Salmon, of course, is a salt water creature.
Gneerally, they’re both, obviously.
But they spend the majority of the lives (early and late) in fresh.
