Stamp Out Sodium

Learn how to be on the lookout for low-sodium, great-tasting foods as you’re walking the aisles at the grocery store.

Following a low-sodium diet is based on four principles:

Know your sodium allowance. For heart failure patients, this is 2,000 mg of sodium per day, or 600 mg sodium per meal and 200 mg sodium for all snacks.
Understand how to read food labels, and read them!
Choose the right foods when you shop.
Always remember that a low-sodium diet should be based on fresh and minimally processed foods.