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Saturday, July 20, 2013
how to manage well salt intake for kidney patients
Nutrition society suggested that healthy adults daily salt intake of 6 g (including soy sauce and other salt in food), and the daily intake of more than 12 grams, some places even higher. And many people are hard to change heavy flavors of diet habit, taste and sensitivity will be obviously decreased with age, prefer to put more salt and soy sauce. That many people will ask, can not to put less salt or salt in the food delicious? Actually, we can adjust in the way of cooking methods, can be also obtained the health food.
1 didn't put salt, vegetables to the pot. Before food dish up cooked a small amount of soy sauce flavor or less put some salt, the salt stays on the surface of food, your tongue will feel salty. And at this point, the salt into the interior of the food, the quantity under the same salinity salt are naturally reduced.
2, more vinegar, less sugar. Acidity can reinforce saltiness, much put some vinegar feel salty too pale. Dishes with lemon juice and ketchup are also has the same effect. Acid can promote digestion, increase appetite, increase mineral absorption rate, reduce the loss of vitamins, fully staffed. Sweet will hide salt, a little salt can highlight the sweet taste of sugar, so, charged with salt, it is best to avoid eating dishes for sugar.
3, limit salt seasoning. In addition to salt and soy sauce, we still have a lot in life contain salt seasoning. Such as chicken, and monosodium glutamate the brothers with them, will be less salt. There are all kinds of sauce is salty foods, such as sweet bean sauce, bean paste, sauce, sweet chilli sauce, etc., such as mayonnaise, salt as much as 12% - 15%.
4, limit salty food. Shrimp skin ingredients, dried shrimp, mussels, pickles, ham, sausage and preserved food, ingredients contains salt, seasoning will carefully, carefully taste, and then make a decision whether to add salt.
5, the use of low-sodium seasoning. Currently on the market, low salt, seasoning is very rich. Such as low salt soy sauce, salt, sauce, salt pickles, etc are sold. Might as well how similar products, the choice of fresh taste is full-bodied, salty light flavor. Using low sodium salt, is a good way to reduce salt.
How to limit salt intake of patients with kidney disease
No matter what kind of kidney disease, as long as there is edema, you have to limit salt intake. Significant edema, while daily limit should be below 1 g, serious or even require salt-free diet. To be reduced the volume of urine protein, edema, relieve, salt can be appropriately increased, but also should be no more than 5 g a day. The purpose of low salt diet is to reduce the water and sodium retention in the body, make the edema subsided and blood pressure to drop.