Salt is quite the condiment. There has even been a great book written on its history. Now the FDA wants to limit it.
So what exactly are they trying to ban? Sodium chloride, or NaCl which has been used as a food preservative and flavor enhancer for thousands of years. Empires have been built on salt and it is even the basis for the word "salary". Sodium, a necessary electrolyte, contributes to hypertension and other disorders in high quantities. Most Americans eat too much of it.
If sodium levels are reduced, I would assume that most vendors would switch to potassium chloride, KCl, which tastes almost identical to the sodium varietal. Nu-Salt has been around for a long time with this formulation.
The only downside I can see is from a marketing standpoint. KCl is one of the ingredients used in the lethal injection cocktail... but that's only when it is injected. Still, this may worry some people.
2010-04-22
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