Stay Delicious, Here Are 4 Tips For Cooking Food With Low Sodium Content

JAKARTA - Salt is an ingredient in almost every type of processed food or restaurant dish. So it's no surprise that most people consume two or three times the amount of sodium they need every day.

You can limit salt in your food and still have delicious food. Start with the following four tips, launching WebMD, Tuesday, May 20.

Packaging foods often contain a lot of salt, because salt is a preservative. Cooking food itself is the best way to control the amount of sodium that enters the body.

Choose poultry, fish, and fresh meat, not processed meat or smoke meat. Choose fresh fruit or vegetables, not canned food or use low sodium canned food. If you use canned foods, such as vegetables or nuts, rinse the contents first to remove some of the sodium.

For side dishes, make red rice or whole grilled sweet potatoes or white potatoes, not instant rice or lumped rice or mash potatoes.

Check every food label to find out its sodium content. Look for products labeled "natrium-free" (less than 5 milligrams of sodium per dish), "very low sodium" (35 milligrams or less per dish), or "without additional salt."

Know that broths, sauces, soy sauces, broth cubes, meat smoothers, seasoned salts, and spices (mustrads, tomato sauces,ferodic sauces), all contain a lot of salt. Pay attention to additional ingredients such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), cake soda, developer powders, and sodium benzoates, all of which are sodium compounds.

If the recipe requires the use of a little salt, replace it with another spice. You can add rosemary, marjoram, timi, tarragon, garlic powder, garlic powder, pepper, nutmeg, jinten, curry powder, ginger, turquoise leaves, greeting leaves, oregano, dry mustard, or dill.

Or sprinkle a mixture of salt-free spices that are sold freely. You can also make your own mixture with this recipe from the American Heart Association:

1/2 tablespoons of cayenne pepper

1 tablespoon of nutmeg, smoothed

1 tablespoon of basil, smoothed

1 tablespoon of garlic powder

1 tablespoon of garlic powder

1 tablespoon of black pepper, smoothed

1 tablespoon of timi, smoothed

1 tablespoon of sage, smoothed

1 tablespoon of peterseli, dry flakes

1 tablespoon of marjoram

1 tablespoon of brewed tea, smoothed

If you cook with cheese, choose fresh mozzarella or cheese that marks "low sodium." Change salted butter with fresh butter. You can use dozens of different ingredients to add flavor to your low sodium diet. Here are some ideas for general foods: