What high-sodium foods should I avoid if I have heart failure?
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Dr. Nasir Sulemanjee of Aurora Health Care answered:Foods high in sodium to avoid if you have heart failure include:
- Cured, smoked, or canned meats including lunch meats and sausage
- Vegetable or tomato juices
- Foods with salt toppings such as saltines
- Cheese, especially processed cheeses
- Canned vegetables unless low sodium or no salt added
- Regular canned soup or broth
- Seasonings/condiments such as soy sauce, steak sauce, mustard, ketchup and monosodium glutamate (MSG)
- Processed foods such as box mixes of pasta, rice, or stuffing
- Foods in a salt brine such as sauerkraut, pickles, olives, and salted fish
- Pizza
Foods high in sodium to avoid if you have heart failure include: Cured, smoked, or canned meats including lunch meats and sausage Vegetable or tomato juices Foods with salt toppings such as saltines Cheese, especially processed cheeses... More
