Low Sodium Diet: Foods to Avoid and Recommended Options

Foods Discouraged

• Kitchen and table salt: salt, iodized salt, sea salt, celery salt.
• Meat: salted, smoked and cured.
• Smoked and dried fish, caviar.
• Sausages in general.
• Cheeses in general (Burgos types are allowed, Villalon).
• Bread and biscuits with salt (except for minor amounts of 50 g).
• Olives.
• Soup, instant mashed, diced, chips.
• Packaged vegetable juice.
• Oleaginous fruits, salty.
• Confectionery industry.
• Salted butter, margarine and salt.
• Sparkling water, carbonated beverages in general.
• Seasonings: salt, mustard, pickles, ketchup, meat tenderizer.
• Preserved foods in general.

Foods Allowed

• Meat, poultry.
• Viscera: tongue, kidneys, liver.
• Fresh fish freshwater or sea.
• Eggs.
• Milk, yogurt, Petit-suisse, curd.
• Cheese without salt.
• Unsalted bread and biscuits (up to 50g salt is allowed).
• Flour, pasta, cereals.
• Potatoes, legumes.
• Vegetables, vegetables (raw tomato *).
• Fresh fruit, compote, fresh fruit juices (apple * orange * banana *) unsalted nuts.
• * The most recommended.
• Butter, margarine, cream, cream milk, vegetable oils, mayonnaise without salt.
• Sugar, homemade cakes, homemade ice cream.
• Chocolate, Cocoa.
• Seasonings: pepper, paprika, saffron, cinnamon, mustard, salt-free herbs.
• Alcoholic beverages except specific restrictions.
• Natural or mineral water of low mineral content, or soda siphon.

General Recommendations

To make more palatable the kitchen "without salt" is recommended to enhance the natural flavor of food: cooking them steamed, simple cooking with water dilutes the flavor of food. Also in "wrapper", stews and casseroles or grilled. Using flavor enhancers like:

• Acids: vinegar, lemon (the roasted red or white meat with lemon enhances the flavor of the same and even a grilled steak taste wins ).
• Of garlic: garlic, onions, chives, leeks.
• Spices: pepper, paprika, curry, saffron, cinnamon, mustard without salt.
• Herbs: basil, fennel, cumin, tarragon, bay leaf, mint, parsley, rosemary, thyme ...

Using flavored oil, like olive oil. Vinegar and oil may be flavored with herbs, tarragon, garlic. Sales of scheme: usually manufactured from potassium chloride and the taste is not quite so nice should not be used to the patient with this condition.

Additives Discouraged

• Disodium phosphate: cereals, cheeses, bottled beverages.
• Monosodium Glutamate: products to enhance the flavor, Meats, seasonings, confectionery items.
• Sodium alginate: Manteca, chocolate milkshakes.
• Sodium benzoate: fruit juices.
• Sodium hydroxide: canned peas.

Spinach has a high sodium content can be included if the rest of the menu ingredients are low in salt. Beware: Jams and fruit in syrup (except homemade). Medicines containing sodium in your formula (or other effervescent paracetamol.)

Functional foods:

Foods and / or components better physical and mental capacity diminishes the risk of disease. Satisfaction Diet optimum nutritional needs of the health Empowerment.

New foods, novel foods:

Functional foods they contain ingredients that provide functionality has physiological effects, psychological or cognitive health Improves positive and / or reduce the risk of disease are part of the food dietary supplements nutritional deficiencies contribute to compensate and hence maintain or improve health are not part of the diet (tablets, capsules.

Development of functional foods:

• Delete a component known to cause harmful effects to consumers.
• Development of functional foods increase the concentrationof a natural food component.
• Adding a component that is not normally present in a particular food.
• Replacing a component that causes undesirable effects on the other with neutral or beneficial effects.
• Altering the bioavailability either by improving metabolic compounds with beneficial effects as hindering the harmful compounds.

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