Secretly salty foods?

Anyone know of foods that hold a lot of salt but deceptively seem like they don't?

It would be nice for a mental note to avoid water retention!

Almost every prepackaged manufactured, comes in a can, bag, or boxed item you can think of.

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So what's a reasonable sodium level?

A lot of processed foods (even ones that you'd think were sweet) contain salts because it extends the shelf-life.  The more food you prepare and cook yourself the less salt you will eat.

2400 mg sodium or about 6g salt is the recommended maximum.

Aside from basically any prepackaged food, restaurant foods tend to have a lot of salt also.

Even things like bread, cheese, sauce, and veggies can have salt. Soup will always have a lot of salt if its not homemade.

And since someone just asked me... 2.5g salt contains about 1g sodium.  Sometimes nutrition panels refer to salt content.  Sometimes they use the sodium content.

The worst offenders in my diet are lean cuisines or other frozen meals and canned soup - I never go near it anymore.  Please do keep in mind though, that although avoiding excess sodium will keep the water retention away, we all need it!  Especially if you work out and sweat on a daily or almost daily basis, you do need to replace some of the salts and minerals you are losing with each work out!

Actually we don't even need to replace it....  We evolved to be able to conserve salt in the body quite efficiently and we can survive on the salt naturally present in fruit & vegetables etc.   It's an old wives' tale that we have to eat salty foods in a hot climate, for example.  People who don't eat a lot of salt don't have salty sweat. 

I was personally addicted to salty foods, I had very high blood presure (im alot better now).  This post is helpfull to me, now i know what else to cut out!  I still do eat salt in some foods though, as gi-jane posted that we dont need salts I very much disagree to that statement (No offence gi-jane)  I was in an infantry unit for 6 years and have seen several of my friends overhydrate due to cutting out almost all of the salty foods out of their diets.  Which is more dangerous then dehydration.

I was actually quoting a heart specialist interviewed specifically about salt on this radio programme. ...  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/foodprogr amme_20080316.shtml  Surely if people over-hydrate it's because they've not just cut out salts but that they've drunk too much water in too short a space of time due to the heat?  Hyperhydration?

Baked stuff - the baking soda/powder adds HEAPS. So bread and muffins and the like. Including breakfast bars that are baked.

Some diet products do (like weight watchers)

Anything that is meant to keep

Anything in brine (like canned things)

Yeah, the overhydration thing.  That is deff. true that they drank way to much water to fast.  But that is due to the over exerction of extreme physical activities, and the rapid depletion of electrolytes is due (partially) to the lack of sodium intake in the body.  I don't mean to question you, I just don't trust a heart specialist who probably never pushed his body so hard that he depleeted his electrolytes.  Nothing like being so thirsty from exaustion that no matter how much water you drink, it only hurts you because your body is unable to process it properly.  I just don't want to see people got threw that feeling.  But other then the people that push them selves super hard and sweat ALOT, the average person has nothing to fear.  We are both right :-D