Salt is everywhere in the modern diet, and much of it is easy to miss. In the United States, people get large amounts of ...

KANSAS CITY — Consumers believe high-sodium intake is everyone else’s problem but their own, according to a global survey from the Ajinomoto Group, Tokyo. The SALTS (sodium alternatives and long-term ...

KANSAS CITY — It’s not sweet, salty, bitter or sour. It’s “delicious.” And it’s the fifth basic taste known by the Japanese word umami, which is described as a savory, meaty flavor. Umami is naturally ...

Dutch ingredients start-up Fooditive has developed a new product, LowSalt, which it claims is twice as salty as conventional salt. Excessive salt consumption is thought to be detrimental to human ...

Sodium is not a pathogen, but it, too, kills. Just ask the World Health Organization (WHO), which reports that two million of the eight million poor diet deaths can be blamed on high sodium intake.

If you're one of the many Americans trying to reduce the sodium in your diet, potassium chloride may help do the trick, dietitians say. But some people need to be careful when adding this to their ...

Most Americans eat far more sodium than health experts recommend. Average intake is more than 3,400 milligrams of sodium a ...