Potassiumis an essential mineral your body needs to function normally. It plays a crucial role in regulating your heartbeat. You can find it in many foods, but a lack of it can lead to hypokalemia or ...

Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Final Guidance document regarding the use of an alternate name for potassium chloride in food labeling. The FDA’s Final Guidance states the ...

Allowing companies to label potassium chloride as ‘potassium salt’ on food labels would ‘demystify’ the ingredient for consumers and help the industry achieve the dual goals of lowering sodium and ...

The use of potassium-enriched salt has now been recommended by the National Hypertension Taskforce—Australia's peak body for ...

The negative health effects linked to salt, such as the increased likelihood of high blood pressure or strokes, are often, research suggests, largely down to the presence of sodium. Many of the new ...

FARGO - NuTek Food Science, a Minneapolis company that sells a potassium chloride alternative for sodium chloride, or table salt, has opened a 100,000-square-foot production facility here near 12th ...

Dutch ingredients start-up Fooditive has developed a new product, LowSalt, which it claims is twice as salty as conventional salt. Excessive salt consumption is thought to be detrimental to human ...