Losalt Original Reduced Sodium Salt 350g

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Some food labels have a traffic light system to help you see if the food has a low, medium or high amount of salt in it. Medical evidence clearly shows that regularly eating too much salt puts us at increased risk of developing high blood pressure. Monosodium glutamate is often used as a substitute to salt in processed and restaurant food, due to its salty taste and low sodium content compared to table salt, and can also be used effectively in home cooking.

Too much can cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure and affect the cardiac muscle, leading to an irregular heartbeat. Having developed an idea to produce a reduced sodium salt alternative, they re-located from London to custom-made premises in East Kilbride and in 1984 they launched LoSalt in the UK.

Some sodium in our diet is good because it helps our kidneys to control the amount of water in our blood. The rest is glutamic acid and the amino acid lysine, a hydrolyzed protein that makes the potassium chloride taste less bitter.

If we can reduce our sodium intake, we will be taking a simple, small and yet very important step towards controlling our blood pressure. Swapping salty ready-meals and takeaways for home-cooked meals is a great way to watch how much salt you eat. Because it has only one-third the amount of sodium found in regular salts, switching to LoSalt for cooking, baking and at the table allows you to season with sense. The study found no significant difference in hyperkalaemia between the two groups, though people with serious kidney disease were excluded from the trial. The recommended daily allowance of potassium is higher than that for sodium, [10] yet a typical person consumes less potassium than sodium in a given day.

Replacing salt with low-sodium salt substitutes (LSSS) for cardiovascular health in adults, children and pregnant women".