HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, Oct. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- China and the United States are ace powers of brackish consumption.
The 2 satellite leaders emerged with the highest brackish levels successful processed nutrient and fish products among 5 countries assessed successful a caller study.
High brackish levels successful nutrient is simply a large origin of high humor pressure and its related risks of heart and kidney diseases and death. The World Health Organization recommends a maximum brackish intake of 2,000 mg/day, but mean planetary brackish depletion successful 2010 was astir 2 times higher.
The WHO has acceptable a people of a 30% planetary simplification successful brackish intake by 2025. Even though the 5 nations successful this survey person strategies to trim brackish intake, the "sodium contented of nutrient and food products successful each the selected countries was precise high, with a 100 g serving size of nutrient and food products contributing to 1 half/ 3rd of WHO recommended maximum regular sodium intake," wrote Puhong Zhang, of the George Institute astatine Peking University Health Science Center, China, and colleagues.
Researchers examined nutrient nutrition labels of 26,500 products successful large supermarket chains successful the countries, zeroing successful connected brackish content.
Overall brackish levels were highest successful China (1,050 mg/100 g), followed by the United States, South Africa, Australia and the U.K. (432 mg/100 g), according to the study. The results were published Oct. 18 successful the online diary BMJ Open.
The survey besides recovered wide variations successful brackish levels wrong and betwixt the 5 countries, depending connected products and brands.
For example: mean brackish contented of nutrient products was little successful Australia (580 mg/100 g) than successful the U.K. (590 mg/100 g). Salt contented of roast chickenhearted successful China was 4.5 times higher than successful the U.K. (893 mg/100 g vs. 197 mg/100 g). Chilled food successful China was 4.5 times saltier than successful the United States but the brackish contented of bacon, frozen meat, salami and cured meats, dried nutrient and frozen food successful China was the lowest of each 5 countries.
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Processed nutrient products included: nutrient alternatives; bacon; canned meat; frozen meat; nutrient burgers; salami and cured meats; sausages and blistery dogs; sliced meat; dried meat; pate and nutrient spreads; kebabs; "other" nutrient products and earthy flavored meats. Also included were full hams and akin products; roast chicken; and earthy unflavored meats.
Processed food products included canned, chilled, frozen and "other" items.
"It is not casual to simply regenerate oregon reformulate the precocious sodium products that already beryllium for years. However, the ample quality successful sodium contented of akin products successful antithetic countries, and the quality successful sodium contented among antithetic brands wrong the aforesaid country, bespeak that determination is inactive a batch of country for brackish reduction," the researchers noted successful a diary quality release.
More information
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration offers ways to gradually trim brackish intake.
SOURCE: BMJ Open, quality release, Oct. 18, 2021
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