10. Sauces and Salad Dressings
Sauces and salad dressings can spice up and enhance the flavor of meat and vegetables but buying these ready to use sauces and salad dressings can lead to excessive sodium intake because these contains very high levels of sodium. A barbeque sauce pack contains 300mg of sodium where as a tablespoon of ranch dressing has 164 mg and 2 tablespoons of steak sauce has 560 mg of sodium.
Bottomline
Sodium is an important part of the daily diet for our muscles and nerves to function well but high levels can promote weight gain, water retention, kidney and liver malfunction as well as high blood pressure. Today, majority of kids and adults are taking more sodium than they need. It is advised that you limit consumption of these sodium rich foods and instead take organic and natural fruits, vegetables, meat and poultry.
