Your favorite fast-food meals have six times more salt than you think
By: Maria Mercedes Galuppo, Buzz60
We are consuming way too much salt without even knowing it!
When you eat out, you're eating an insane amount of salt, additives and preservatives that send the sodium intake through the roof.
A study in the journal Appetite concluded that 89% of Americans eat too much salt. The advised intake is 2,300 milligrams which is the equivalent of one teaspoon, yet Americans are having about 3,600 milligrams a day.
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The researchers said adults eat about 1,300 mg of sodium in one fast-food sitting and they have no idea. When asked how much they thought they consumed, they were off by about 650%. Too much salt can lead to hypertension, heart attacks and stroke.
When you have a reduced fat blueberry muffin from Dunkin' Donuts you are taking 23% of your daily recommendation.
A Chipotle flour tortilla has 600 mg, more than a quarter of your daily limit without even adding one ingredient.When sipping Sonic's Oreo Milkshake you're almost halfway in a day's worth of sodium.
And just because you are trying to eat healthy doesn't mean you are having less salt. A minestrone soup from Hale and Hearty has 70% of the recommended limit and an Applebee's Southwestern Chicken Salad packs 3,620 mg in sodium, which is 157% of your recommended intake.
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