Diet Science

Diet Science


Yikes! There's More Sugar than Iodine in Our Salt!

December 26, 2016

FDA regulations require food manufacturers to list the ingredient that weighs the most first, and the ingredient that weighs the least last​.  On the ingredient list of Iodized salt, dextrose is listed before iodine, which means there is more sugar by weight in the salt. Listen in this week as Dee ​exposes why salt has sugar added to it, and tells you what the best food sources of iodine are.


Link to ​Dee's favorite types of salts