The 10 Saltiest Foods in America

Most of us have heard that it’s a good idea to “cut down on sodium,” but besides making sure the top to the salt shaker is screwed on properly, what does that really mean?

Well, first, realize that salt is an essential mineral that our body can’t function without. Current dietary guidelines for Americans recommend that adults in general should consume no more than 2,300 milligrams (mg) of sodium per day (1500 if you have high blood pressure, are African American, or are over age 51.)

If 2300 mg sounds like a lot, it is. There’s an estimated 189 mg of sodium in one of those little salt packages you get at McDonald’s. So if you downed a dozen of them, you’d still be within your daily sodium intake—assuming you didn’t eat anything else all day, which you probably wouldn’t, because you’d be too busy trying to drain your swimming pool with a flexi-straw.

But a dozen little sodium packages is nothing when you consider what you’re getting from these foods, each of which seem saltier than Sarah Silverman’s pillow talk.

10. Chili’s Boneless Buffalo Chicken Salad
3730 mg sodium (and you thought you were doing the right thing ordering the salad…)

9. Cheesecake Factory Sunrise Fiesta Burrito
With 4600 mg sodium, this breakfast burrito packs almost twice the daily recommended sodium allowance. If you like to start your day off bloated, this is the burrito for you.

8. Chili's Chicken Crispers - Honey Chipotle Style
4910 mg sodium, coupled with its 81 grams of fat, you're basically eating heart disease.

7. Applebee’s Sizzling Skillet Shrimp Fajita
5140 mg sodium! How Applebees managed to turn shrimp and sauteed vegetables into one of the saltiest foods in America may be the 8th wonder of the world.

6. TGI Friday’s Jack Daniel’s Ribs & Shrimp (w/o sides)
5140 mg sodium, if you dare to have fries with that you'll be tacking on another 980 mg of sodium.

5. Chili’s Texas Cheese Fries
A full order has 5310 mg sodium and 119 grams of fat. Better wear your sweatpants, you're going to need them.

4. On the Border Firecracker Stuffed Jalapeños w/ Original Queso
5760 mg sodium, never mind the firecracker, if you eat this you'll be the one blowing up.

3. PF Chang’s Dan Dan Noodles
6190 mg sodium, asking for the low sodium soy sauce won't do you any favors.

2. Applebee’s Appetizer Sampler
6260 milligrams of hypertension for you.

1. Saltiest Food in America
PF Chang’s  Hot & Sour Soup Bowl
7980 mg of sodium!
Yes, congratulations. If you eat this, you’ll have slurped down the sodium equivalent of 44 individual bags of Doritos Cool Ranch Tortilla Chips.

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