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They need to be aware of this Raw chicken breast can contain as little as 50 to 75 milligrams of sodium per 4-ounce serving. Just stay away from meat in a plastic wrappackage.
Is enhanced – injected with a salt solution or broth during processing.
Chicken injected with sodium. If you purchase a package of injected chicken for 6 you will likely be paying at least 1 to 150 for the salt water solution and you are likely consuming at least 1000 milligrams of added sodium. One chicken breast could eat up 60 of your sodium intake before you. They need to be aware of this Raw chicken breast can contain as little as 50 to 75 milligrams of sodium per 4-ounce serving.
But much of the chicken. If you purchase a package of injected chicken for 6 you will likely be paying at least 1 to 150 for the salt water solution and you are likely consuming at least 400 milligrams of added sodium. One chicken breast could eat up 20 of your sodium intake.
Amidst an increasing national focus on sodium as a critical health issue US West Coast poultry producer Foster Farms has launched a comprehensive consumer campaign to raise awareness of saltwater-injected or plumped chicken. Despite the fact that 1 in 3 Americans suffers from high blood pressure and heart disease being the leading cause of death in the US the poultry industry injects so much salt into chicken a practice known as plumping that a typical serving can have as much as a whopping 500 milligrams of sodium. Pilgrims Pride and Tyson Foods the two largest chicken processors are among those that proclaim their chicken is natural even though it has been injected.
Salt or salt solution injected into the chicken would fall under the organic label guidelines. Check the package for retained water listed on there. It means it was brined or injected with a solution.
Just stay away from meat in a plastic wrappackage. Raw chicken breast can contain as little as 50 to 75 milligrams of sodium per 4-ounce serving. But much of the chicken on the market in the US.
Is enhanced – injected with a salt solution or broth during processing. Poultry companies have gotten a green light from USDA to call their products 100 natural or all natural even though theyve been injected with extra salt and water. Some brands mix in a seaweed extract called carrageenan that helps to retain the added.
CR also notes that while Whole Foods does not inject its chickens two of its birds still are on the high end in terms of sodium count. The nonorganic plain chicken 120 milligrams of sodium. Of the listed ingredients the one Miller expresses concerns about is sodium phosphate.
She says this is used to prevent the growth of mold and bacteria as well as to add texture and also to work as an emulsifier something that helps to uniformly disperse the flavorings and other ingredients throughout the chicken.