A great way to cut salt from your diet while maintaining vibrant flavor is to go global. Look to recipes from the Mediterranean, Latin America, Asia and Africa for healthy ideas to transform fruits, vegetables and other wholesome ingredients into exciting flavors for your meals. Because many of these world culinary traditions build up flavor in novel, complex and intriguing ways, cooks are under less pressure to use so much sodium.
These traditional cultural approaches to flavor development go way beyond fat, salt and sugar, our all-too-frequent default flavor enhancers in the U.S. Try new recipes from these countries, check out cooking blogs that features these foods, and experiment with a delicious, lower-salt way of cooking!
—Source: Harvard School of Public Health
Good Neighbor Pharmacy Health Connection, May 2014
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