Article: With salt, looks can be deceiving

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 ...

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