Status of Low Sodium Initiatives

The current 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans hasthe following daily goals for sodium and potassium:

For ages 14 - 51+: 2,300 mg sodium and 4,700 mg potassium.

For ages 9 -13 years: 2,200 mg sodium and 4,500 mg potassium

For ages 4-8 years:  1,900mg sodium, 3,800 mg potassium

For ages 1-3 years: 1,500 mg sodium, 3,000 mg potassium

New Dietary Guidelines for Americans are expected at the endof 2020.

Meantime, on October 2017 the CDC published a quick guide for consumers regardingsodium and dietary guidelines: https://www.cdc.gov/salt/pdfs/sodium_dietary_guidelines.pdf. It suggested approximately 32% sodium reduction in the daily diet to lessthan 2300 mg/day vs the average consumption of 3400 mg/day.

This publication also suggests consumers ask their favoriterestaurants, stores and foodmanufacturers to offer more low sodium options.

Should you have product development projects involvinglowering sodium content, SPI Group offers a great set of tools to achieve thosegoals. Some of these are:

Saltwell Low-Sodium Sea Salt (35% lower sodium): suggested 1to 1 replacement to conventional salt

ProDry Vinegar Powders: enhancing saltiness perception

NuTek Salt: patented Potassium chloride with improved tasteperception

Toravita 028 SD and Toravita 029 SD: autolyzed yeast withammonium chloride or potassium chloride

Supro Nuggets (soy protein nugget) with lower sodium content

Please contact your SPI Group representative if you wouldlike more information about these solutions.