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Spotting salty foods Find out how much sodium is in some common foods and how you can maintain a low sodium diet. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
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- Keeping in mind how much salt you should be taking if you're on a low-sodium diet,
- I'm just gonna write that here: "Low sodium diet".
- I was thinking, of all the food that I typically like to consume
- and where that fits in the amount that I'm allowed in a given day.
- If I'm on a low sodium diet the amount was about 1500mg of sodium per day.
- This is sodium – not salt, remember.
- If I go through a few foods that'll be fun to figure out how much sodium is in these foods.
- Let's start out with something I had not too long ago:
- I was recently on a road trip and I stopped off on the side of the road
- and I picked up one of my favourite little snacks which was a large carton of fries.
- I had some fries and they were delicious.
- These are large fries.
- I actually love to eat fries with ketchup,
- so I had 5 ketchup packets, so this is one food item.
- Another food item I've had many many times,
- especially when I’m in a big rush and I don't have time to go out and get a proper lunch,
- I'll sit down and grab a cup of noodles.
- I'll grab a cup of noodles and if you had these,
- they are dehadrated noodles that are in here.
- If you like me you'll love them.
- This is a cup of noodles.
- This was another item that I thought would be good to look at.
- The next item or the last item is similar to the cup of noodles.
- It's another cup of noodles but the kind that you might take when you're sick.
- Whenever I'm sick one of the things I always reach for is a pot of water.
- I like to boil up the water and cook a block of noodles inside of it.
- Put the flavoring packet there and these are dehydrated noodles.
- I like to eat those, so these are my dehydrated noodles in a pot of water.
- I call that a block of noodles and I usually eat one whole block at a time with the flavoring.
- I've gotta a few things here: block of noodles, cup of noodles and also my large fries with ketchup.
- I know my limit is 1500mg in a day,
- so how far along do these things get me?
- One by one, let me just tell you the answer.
- The large fries with packets of ketchup – 5 packets, is about 900mg of sodium.
- The cup of noodles is about 1200mg of sodium.
- You can see I'm going up-up-up, so my block of noodles is actually 1600mg of sodium.
- This one puts me over the amount that I'm allowed in a whole day
- and that is usually what I would have just for lunch.
- It's an immense amount of sodium, tonnes of sodium and it got me thinking:
- how in the world, and I'm not actually on a low sodium diet, but if I was...
- How in the world would I be able to do it?
- I was browsing the Internet and I came across a website which I'm gonna share with you.
- It's from the Mayo Clinic.
- I don't want to say this is the only website,
- there'are tonnes of great websites out there,
- but this one website actually got me thinking.
- What I thought is, why don't I figure out what kind of food I could actually get?
- If I was on a low sodium diet, what would make sense?
- I picked out a few things from there
- that I thought would be tasty.
- They have one thing that's a roasted salmon – this is my salmon.
- If I eat a roasted salmon with all of oil and chives, the amount of sodium is 60mg.
- Not bad, right?
- Let's say I wanna eat that with some potatoes – I've got some roasted potatoes over here
- which I love, so does my dad.
- These roasted potatoes get me 7mg of sodium.
- Potatoes are great, salmon is great but I like my vegetables.
- What if I get some asparagus in there?
- Some roasted asparagus and other recipe for mushrooms with a roasted asparagus.
- This meal is looking better and better and if I get some asparagus with the mushrooms
- that's an additional 11mg of sodium, so that's pretty reasonable.
- Since since I'm doing so well
- I was tempted to go to their 'Dessert menu' and I grabbed one of the recipies for apple pie.
- Apple pie is an American favourite, certainly one of my favourites.
- I love to make apple pie and that gets me about 16mg of sodium.
- If I'm totaling all of this up, I've got 60+7+11+16.
- That total comes to...
- 94mg of sodium.
- It's 94mg of sodium is well within my limit of 1500mg of sodium per day.
- This is one place you can go to get some good food recommendations.
- As I said there are many many others as well.
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