Sodium content in Swedish processed food items compared to other countries

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Dietary sodium has a dose-response relationship with cardiovascular disease, and intake in Sweden exceeds national international recommendations. Two thirds dietary comes from processed foods, adults eat more foods than any other European country. We hypothesised that content Swedish is higher countries due to the high population. Purpose To investigate food items, how it differs Australia, France, Hong Kong, South Africa, United Kingdom States. Method Data were collected retailers by trained research staff using standardised methods. Ten categories compared Kruskal-Wallis test ranks. Results Compared countries, had among highest ‘dairy’ ‘convenience foods’ categories, but lowest ‘cereal grain products’, ‘seafood seafood products’ ‘snack categories. The contents data found ‘meat meat category. Conclusion Contrary our hypothesis, overall lower most included countries. Sodium differed substantially between all increasingly consumed