Low-Salt Diet Food Selection Guide

Foods Allowed for a Healthy Low-Salt Diet

All Fresh Foods

• Fruits

• Vegetables, salad or cooked with little salt

• Protein-rich foods cooked with little table salt

Note: Maximum allowance is ½ teaspoon table salt per day

Foods NOT Allowed

Instant Foods

• Noodles, pasta, entrée, cereals

Table Salt

• Iodized salt, garlic salt, onion salt (unless computed)

Sauces

• Fish sauce (patis), Soy sauce (toyo)

• Small fish, salted and fermented (bagoong na isda), small shrimp (alamang) sauce

• Barbecue sauce, catsup, oyster sauce

Processed, Salted, Smoked, Canned Foods

• Big dried salted fish usually cut in half (daing), small dried salted fish (tuyo), anchovy (dilis), smoked fish (tinapa)

• Sausage (longanisa), tocino, bacon, ham, luncheon meats (processed and cured meats)

• Salted eggs

• Canned soups, packed soups

• Commercially-frozen lima beans, peas, hominy (binatog)

• Pickles

• Pickled papaya (atsara)

• Cheese

• Sauerkraut

Leavening Sodium

• Baking soda, baking powder

Seasoning

• Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)

• Seasoning flavors like beef, chicken, shrimp, pork 

• Bouillon cubes 

• Liquid seasoning

Commercial Chips, Crackers, Salted Seeds and Nuts

Note: For more Tips on a Healthy Low-Salt Diet See Low-Salt Diet

Reference: Healing Wonders of Diet Effective Guide to Diet Therapy p.133 © 2003 Philippine Publishing House ISBN 971-581-013-6