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LOW SALT DIET
Purpose: Sodium
controlled diets are designed to avoid excessive sodium retention
Use: The low salt diet is used for persons with
diseases that affect fluid balance or where a decrease in body fluid volume will relieve
symptoms of the disease. Conditions where control may be indicated are severe heart
failure, impaired liver function, high blood pressure, and acute and chronic kidney
disease.
Here are the following guidelines to help reduce
the amount of sodium in your diet
- Take the salt shaker off the table and omit salt
from recipes and food preparation.
- Cook without salt or with only small amounts of
added salt.
- Learn to enjoy the flavors of unsalted foods.
- Try flavoring foods with herbs, spices, and lemon
juice.
Read food
labels carefully to determine the amounts of sodium. Learn to recognize ingredients
that contain sodium. Salt, soy sauce, salt brine or any ingredient with sodium (such as
monosodium glutamate) or baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) as part of its name contains
sodium.
- Rinsing canned vegetables and fish will remove much
of the salt.
- Season or marinate meat, poultry, and fish ahead of
time with onion, garlic and your favorite herbs before cooking to bring out the flavor.
- Some terms describing sodium content: lite, light,
lightly salted, low sodium, reduced sodium, sodium free, unsalted, no salt added, without
salt added, very low sodium.
- Use lower sodium products, when available, to
replace those with higher sodium content.
- Use simple techniques like saving chicken broth from
a chicken you cook at home rather than buying a canned, powdered or bouillon cube broth.
- When dining out words that signal high sodium
include: smoked, barbecued, pickled, broth, soy sauce, teriyaki, creole sauce, marinated,
cocktail sauce, tomato base, Parmesan, and mustard sauce.
| FOODS
RECOMMENDED |
FOODS TO
AVOID |
| MILK &
DAIRY 2-3 servings each day All milk and
milk products, except buttermilk
Cream cheese
Low sodium cheeses
Yogurt |
MILK &
DAIRY Buttermilk
Cheese (Muenster, Colby, Cheddar, Blue, Gouda,
American, Velveeta)
Cheese spreads |
| FRUIT
& VEGETABLES 5-9 servings each day Fresh
or frozen vegetables
No added salt or low salt canned vegetables
No added salt tomato products
Salt-free vegetable juices
All fruit and fruit juices |
FRUIT
& VEGETABLES Canned vegetables
Frozen vegetables with seasoning and sauces
Pickle relish, sweet or sour
Pickled Vegetables
Pickles and others prepared in brine
Sauerkraut
Vegetable or tomato juices, canned or bottled
Pickled Fruits |
| BREADS
& GRAINS 6-11 servings each day Bread
and rolls
Dry and cooked cereals
Pancakes, waffles
Potatoes
Salt-free potato chips
Salt-free pretzels/snack chips
Rice, barley, noodles, spaghetti, macaroni and
other pastas
Tortillas
Unsalted crackers
Unsalted popcorn |
BREADS
& GRAINS Breads and rolls with salted
tops
Instant hot cereals
Instant Food Products (e.g., cereals, pasta mixes,
potatoes, rice, etc.) Such as boxed mixes like rice, scalloped potatoes, macaroni
and cheese
Popcorn, Prepackaged Microwave
Salted popcorn
Saltines, potato chips, pretzels, snack chips, pork
rinds |
| MEATS
& MEAT SUBSTITUTES 2-3 servings or total of 6 oz daily All fresh and fresh frozen meats (poultry, fish, shellfish,
beef, pork, lamb)
Canned unsalted tuna fish
Dried peas and beans
Eggs
Low sodium peanut butter
Unsalted nuts
Unsalted soybeans and other meat substitutes
Soups
Homemade soups, made with allowed ingredients
Unsalted broth or bouillon
Low sodium commercial soup |
MEATS
& MEAT SUBSTITUTES Cured, salted,
canned or smoked meats, poultry, or fish such as corned beef, ham, bacon, luncheon meats,
beef jerky, bologna, pork rinds, hogmaws, ribs, chitterlings, frankfurter, sausage,
chorizo, canned fish like tuna, sardines, mackerel, anchovies, caviar, salted cod,
herring, sardines, lox, dry fish, and kippered salmon
Dried Fish, Assorted (e.g., dried shrimp)
Frozen pizza
Frozen prepared meat entree dinners such as pot
pies, macaroni and cheese
Kosher meats
Pickled Meats
Regular peanut butter
Salted nuts
Soups
Broth and soups with added salt
Regular canned soups
Regular instant soups
Regular bouillon cubes |
| FATS &
SNACKS (use sparingly) Margarine,
vegetable oils and lard
Unsalted gravies
Unsalted butter
Mayonnaise, sour cream
Salt-free salad dressings
Homemade salad dressings, made without added salt
Whipping cream
Sugar, honey, jelly, jam, syrup, candies
Popsicle’s, fruit ice, sherbet, fruit sorbet,
marshmallows
Homemade cookies, pies, cakes made with allowed
ingredients |
FATS &
SNACKS Butter
Commercial salad dressings
Cheese-based dressings
Bacon fat, fatback, salt pork
Salad dressing mixes
Olives, green and black
Prepared frozen cream pies and cheese cake
Instant pudding mixes
Commercially prepared baked goods (Cakes, cookies,
pie)
Salted nuts |
| MISC. Allspice, Mustard (dry)
Almond Extract
Basil
Bay Leaves
Capello's Italian Style Seasoning
Caraway Seeds
Chives
Cider Vinegar
Cinnamon
Curry Powder
Diamond Crystal
Dill
Garlic Powder
Ginger
Herbal Seasonings:
Lawry's Seasoned Pepper
Lawry's Seasoning (no salt)
Lemon Juice
Mace
Mrs. Dash
Nutmeg
Onion Powder
Paprika
Parsley
Parsley Patch
Peppermint Extract
Pimento
Rosemary
Sage
Salt free seasoning blends
Savory
Sodium-free Baking Powder
Thyme
Turmeric
Vinegar
Wagner's all-purpose Seasonings
Labeled "no salt" Asian Products,
Assorted [e.g., bean paste and sauces, oriental dried plums and other dried seeds,
vegetables and fruits (lemon & ginger)] |
MISC. Accent
Alka-Seltzer
All commercially prepared and convenience foods
such as TV dinners, box mixes, canned entrees,
Hamburger Helper, meat pies, Chinese dinners, pizza, Shake'n Bake mixes
BBQ sauce
Celery salt
Chili sauce
Garlic salt
Horseradish
Kitchen Bouquet
Lemon pepper
Marinade sauce
Meat tenderizers
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
Onion salt
Party spreads
Regular ketchup
Relish
Salad dressings
Salt
Seasoning salts
Sodium Benzoate
Sodium Caseinate
Sodium Citrate
Sodium Nitrate
Sodium Phosphate
Sodium Propionate
Sodium Saccharin
Soy sauce
Steak sauce
Tartar sauce
Teriyaki sauce
Worcestershire sauce |
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