Low-sodium soy sauce, soup and snacks dominate supermarket shelves, so it seems pretty obvious that a lot of Americans are aware that they need to lower their sodium intake. But to what extent is it ...

Louisianans know salt as the most important seasoning tool in their kitchens. We purchase it in bulk during crawfish season. It makes a pot of gumbo shine and is the reason we sling back raw oysters ...

At some point, we've all oversalted a dish and wondered how to salvage it quickly. Well, it turns out this common cooking mistake can be easily solved with a squeeze of lemon. The acid from the citrus ...

Unfortunately, some ingredients that make food especially delicious also help drive us to our graves. And it can be hard to make salad as addictive as salt-laden potato chips. Everyone needs the ...

How much salt is too much salt? Unfortunately, it's most likely the amount you're consuming. A new study published Monday in the journal JAMA found that cutting one teaspoon of salt a day results in a ...

SALT IS ONE of the most commonly used ingredients in the kitchen. And, if you've restocked your supply anytime recently, you might have noticed that there are a few more options beyond a classic ...

Baba Yusuf (pseudonym) was healthy on Thursday. On Friday morning, he went to work, and in the evening when he returned from work, he started feeling unease. He was feeling dizzy and so much thirsty, ...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is now increasingly being diagnosed in Indians in their 20s and 30s. But nearly half of ...

I recently talked to coworkers about which kinds of salt their families used, and I was surprised that table and sea salt ...

After an unusually mild start to winter, colder temperatures and some (light) snow are finally arriving in Minnesota. With winter weather comes the use of de-icing materials, like salt, but too much ...