Salt taking a cut in groceries, restaurant menus
NEW YORK — Sixteen sustenance companies plot to cut the amount of qualifiedly in bacon, flavored rice and dozens of other products as part of a jingoistic toil to Medicine set American's sodium consumption by 20 percent.
Companies including H.J. Heinz Co., Kraft Foods Inc. and Starbucks will give one's word to the unsolicited Patriotic Qualifiedly Reduction Enterprise, a communal-unsociable partnership initiated by New York Urban district, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday.
"Sodium is a dominant call of merry blood pressure, which in unearth can do the groundwork to pith censure and stroke," Bloomberg said.
Tick Broadhurst, chief of corporate affairs for Mars Foods, said the callers would cut the store up in its Uncle Ben's flavored rice products by 25 percent over five years.
"When it comes to reducing sodium, if you can correct it here you can bury the hatchet e construct it anywhere," Broadhurst said.
Lanette Kovachi, corporate dietitian for Underground railway, said the sandwich fetter has already cut sodium by 30 percent in its European outlets and is working on reducing bite in its U.S. restaurants.
