We all know that sodium is added to almost everything we eat. Do we “know” it in our head and it just doesn’t translate to our practical knowledge? Now that we’re aware of the sodium in our food, I’m totally frustrated.
There are many articles online about the sodium content of our food. I found this one, Chicken’s Salty Little Secret, particularly interesting.
The article is from 2011. I found several similar articles up through 2014 but not a whole lot after that. Here’s a bit more explanation from Wikipedia.
Jackie says
I’m following a sodium reduced diet or so I thought. I eat a lot of chicken, actually only chicken and I thought I was doing great. I never heard of salt injections for chickens and now will have to check out the brand I purchase. Thank you for sharing.
Claudia Wade says
Is organic chicken any better? Or I hate to suggest it, but you have your own all natural chickens, right?
Liz says
When I switched to eating more chicken, I noticed that the breasts were really large. That’s when I noticed the labels had disclaimers about added solutions. Price wise, these packs were usually on sale for less than the packs of scrawny breasts. So, I think these packs became best sellers for the grocers since more people bought them due to the increased size and the price. And, most people probably had better luck in cooking those salty breasts and not dry them out. I adjusted by not using salt when cooking.
It would be an interesting test to get samples of both the salty chicken and the “pure” chicken. You would have to cook them the same way in amount of liquid and salt while cooking. I wonder if you could taste the difference and if you would be tempted to add salt in cooking or eating. Now, I’ll have to start looking at the chicken packages, but I’m sure that most of the stores I go to have some “organic” labeled skinny chickens.
Sue says
Once we lowered our sodium intake, yes I could taste the sodium in poultry both chicken and turkey. Ham was an explosion of sodium in most brands so hence I have meat in much smaller portions or go meatless Mexican It’s so difficult these days.
Linda in NE says
I’m not on a particularly sodium reduced diet but I always cook my chicken with just Mrs. Dash. It’s just the way I like it. There’s really no way to know exactly what is in our food unless we raise, process and cook it all ourselves.
Nelle Coursey says
There is a federal law that prohibits chicken farmers/poultry plants from using antibiotics, or artificial hormone injections or however they do it.All those advertisements are made to make you think other people are doing this. IF they are, they are doing it illegally. If you want fresh chickens with no salt, then maybe you can raise some of your own? Or find a neighbor who has chickens and will slaughter them for you??
Wanda says
Yes this is so true. That is like the paper under neither the meats you but you pay for all that water weight think COst of that . . All meats have some wAter injected. Now to get rid of salt in ham bull it and change water often that help a lot to get rid of salt. I done this for years since I don’t like salty stuff. The salt makes meat have a longer shelf life. That is why in Europe they buy all there meat trash daily. Since no injected salt.