Nearly all Americans eat way too much salt, with processed and restaurant-prepared foods as major contributors, a new government poll found.
Nearly 90 percent of adults said in a recent poll from the Food and Drug Administration that they ate more salt than they should. Another three-quarters of Americans believed that products in supermarkets contained more or the same amount of salt as five years ago, according to the poll of healthy habits of adults in 2014.
Eating too much salt can lead to high blood pressure and other health complications.
The FDA said the poll found that almost nine in 10 U.S. adults said they use claims such as “low in sodium,” “rich in antioxidants” and “no sugar added,” but only one-third of adults thought these claims accurately described the products.
The agency’s Health and Diet survey was based on interviews with 2,480 adults back in 2014.
