Prepared Foods Exclusive: Sodium and Packaged Foods
Kathie L. Wrick, PhD, RD, Partner, The Food Group
Packaged food companies in the U.S. have been actively, though quietly, working on sodium reduction for quite some time. On their websites, many large firms, such as Nestle and Unilever, have publicly committed to reducing salt and sodium in their products. Others have quietly addressed this issue over time, product by product, and continue their efforts to produce lower-sodium foods their consumers will enjoy. Some companies are in the process of making near “across-the-board” sodium reductions using gradual, and sometimes nearly imperceptible, reductions in sodium-containing ingredients, as well as their own scientific advances in sodium-reduction approaches that can lead to proprietary technologies.