Prepping chocolate cake for sodium testing.
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How a lot salt is absolutely in our dinners (or our breakfasts)? To seek out out, we ordered a few of our favourite dishes — we bought it anonymously; the eating places had no concept the place their meals was headed — and despatched all the pieces to the College of Nebraska Meals Processing Middle in Lincoln to gauge the sodium content material with an atomic absorption spectrophotometer. See how a lot salt is in all the pieces, under (organized least to most), and understand that the American Coronary heart Affiliation recommends consuming fewer than 1,500 milligrams, whole per day.
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