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Article: With salt, looks can be deceiving
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 31, 1986
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If you're a food package reader, you've already noticed: There's
a lot of packaged food out there with labels that say the salt - or
the sodium, which comprises 40 percent of table salt - has been
reduced, vastly reduced, or eliminated altogether. You can buy
salt-free, sodium-free, or salt/sodium-reduced pickles, potato chips,
pretzels, peanuts, canned goods, meats, bread and butter, cheese and
crackers, sodas and breakfast cereals.
Consumers are just beginning to show some desire for these
products, according to food manufacturers' spokesmen: "Sales have
been trending upward, though they're not big sellers yet," said James
Moran of Campbell Soup, which makes 15 sodium-reduced ...