Mars commits to lower sodium in food products

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Mars announced last week to pledge to lower sodium in their processed foods by twenty percent by 2021. The plan for Mars Food is to add more herbs and spices to maintain their products flavor and reduce the salt.

High salt and sugar contents are common in processed foods, and not always easy to see in labeling, making it an easy hazard for heart health risks.

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), some of the sodium levels in Mars’s popular Uncle Ben’s rice products are high enough that if a person serves themselves an extra serving of the chicken-flavored rice, they would be over the recommended daily amount of sodium.

The AHA has long requested food companies to reduce sodium in its products for health reasons. Mars is also now requesting the FDA to issue guidelines on sodium as well.

Prevent Obesity has congratulated Mars Food and celebrates their sodium reduction commitment, to learn more on this, click here.

To learn more about this change from AHA, click here.

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