CDC wants restaurants to reduce salt content in food
The strategy: reduce, replace, reformulate
Think fast food is especially unhealthy? When it comes to sodium, dine-in restaurant fare is even worse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would like both types of eateries to reduce sodium in their menu items – and it has suggestions for how to do that.
On average, Americans eat out at fast food or dine-in restaurants four or five times a week. Meals from fast food restaurants contain 1,848 mg of sodium per 1,000 calories and foods from dine-in restaurants contain 2,090 mg of sodium per 1,000 calories, meaning both can help put you over the U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommended limit of 2,300 mg of sodium a day.