What's right for you should be determined by your health care provider. In Our Food Saltiness is an acquired taste. We sprinkle it from the shaker at the table and add it to cooking water and other dishes while preparing them. Salt is added, often in large amounts, to processed or prepared convenience foods such as soups and salad dressings, canned or dry dinner mixes, packaged cookies and crackers, bouillon, sauces, condiments, and dessert mixes. Many canned vegetables are also seasoned with salt.
Cheeses contain salt for preserving as well as for flavor.
Smoked or canned meat and fish products such as tuna, ham, bacon, cold cuts, corned beef and sausage are well seasoned with salt. Deli roast beef and turkey breast are often cooked with salt. Nearly all foods contain some natural sodium. A few foods may be limited on a medically prescribed diet because of their relatively high levels of natural sodium. As a rule, however, the amount of sodium contained in unseasoned, non-processed foods is low.