Soy Sauce

hi elicBxn sometimes here we have chicken stirfry and it has a lot of soy sauce in it. so salty it made my lips pucker but worst of all I woke in the middle of the night with cramps in both my legs fro m too much sodium, it always does that to me thats why if I used soy sauce in my own cooking before coming here I got the lower salt version,its a little lower and sometime I diluted the soy a bit too same flavor but less sodium. YOU see I have high b lood pressure and am one of the few people who are what onedoctor calls salt fast, any sodium makes us retain fluid and get those horrid leg cramps. they are so painful.and too its not too great for people with high blood pressure either.the chicken stir fry here is delicious but they just use too much soy sauce.

Yes, I did know. There is a low sodium soy sauce, which is very good. We swapped to that, and you really don't notice much of a difference...except that whatever you put it on isn't too salty. Look next time you shop, it's well worth getting.

Yup--known for a long time that soy sauce has a lot of sodium in it, even the so-called "lite" low sodium ones still have a lot. Some brands can have over 1,000 mgs of sodium in one tablespoon and the daily recommended amount is about 2,500 which is the equivalent of about a little over a teaspoon of salt--did an article about sodium content in foods..that's how I know..LOL I hardly use salt anymore either, that's why it amuses me no end when I watch cooking shows and they add salt to everything

What is it about salt that you don't like? I love salt but not a lot of it on my food but I have to have some. I buy the lite salt made by morton and it takes just like regular salt but has less of it. I too have low blood pressure and my mom did too till she had the stroke and now it fluctuates. But still I have salt in my diet and my blood pressure stays on the low side. As for the soy sauce, yes it's VERY salty and is why I only use a little bit on chinese food. Put too much and your eyes will pop out of your head! lol But it's the ONLY time I use soy sauce and only a little bit at that.

Yes, I did, but fortunately for me, I do not have issues with salt, so far. I do not eat it often enough but as my friends from Holland said, everything in the USA has salt in it... and sugar! They could not believe it.

Hey Elic! I'm afraid I did know that Soy Sauce was full of Sodium! It is mostly Sodium as far as I'm concerned. I have had high blood pressure for so many years now and have cut out adding salt, watching sodium counts on everything I buy that if something has too much sodium/salt I can taste in a second! I used to load on the salt like crazy before I had to start watching and then put on meds since it wasn't able to be controlled by diet alone! So since I love Chinese Food and use the Soy Sauce I know how salty it makes the food taste! Even if I buy something as simple as Chicken Salad made in the Deli and they put too much salt in it I can taste it and it bothers me! And if you would have seen how much salt I used to load on my french fries, now I don't even use any! And when you have to look at everything from frozen dinners to canned soups and you see the amounts of sodium they put into everything it can drive you crazy!

There are several different kinds of soy sauce, but I cannot remember the individual names. The two saltiest ones are pretty much the standard. What you get in the average supermarket, compared to this other standard soy sauce, well, here's the best way to describe the comparison. The soy sauce you can get in a regular supermarket, you can alsmost see the bottom of the spoon. The soy sauce that I like to use is sort of "stronger" - & I can only get it in a two-liter can from a Chinese restaurant or a specialized store. This soy sauce is more "opaque" & seems to stick to the spoon more easily. Another soy sauce I'm aware of seems to be more of a sweet taste. There's an even stronger soy sauce that is not really to add to foods after it's cooked, but it gets poured into a pot to cover poultry in & cooked that way. Another very salty condiment is oyster sauce. I have been known to being one of the few that can actually drink the above stuff right out of the bottle. Even then, even though I have heard that the sodium content is not quite as bad, ketchup, most barbecue sauces, & mustard also have relatively high sodium contents. Uh - MSG - monosodium glutamate - is also a high sodium additive.

Oh yes. That's been a well known fact in our family for years. I love soy sauce on Asian food and I have at least four different types of soy sauce in my pantry. It's not just the saltiness that I like but the actual flavours of the various ones. Yummo!

I love soy sauce very much. That was before I was diagnosed with urinary track infection. When I got the uti thing, I used to drink a lot of water after eating sodium-loaded foods to counter the effect of salt. But I really love salty foods that I cannot control my eating habit anymore and now I am suffering with stones embedded in my kidney.

That explains the salty feel I get whenever I take soy sauce. High in sodium.. bits of it good, but not too much for me too. I'm trying to cut down on my salt intake too.. just for health purposes. Soy sauce is used a lot in cooking dishes.

Yes I knew it was very high in sodium. Say....this might be a good item to take with you, should you ever become stranded in the desert???? cdrxo

from what i undersand is soy souce is full of soduim. I have read the bottles too. I do love to use it when I eat chiness food. but if you have high blood pressure, you must watch what you eat.

Wow that's indeed a lot of sodium! I didn't know that. In our cuisine, we usually use soy sauce a lot. Though when I get home, I'll check the bottle =)

Hello ElicBxn. I love soy sauce, it gives Chinese foot that distinctive flavour and I add it to a lot of dishes. I didn't know the salt level was that high though. Here in the UK there are strict rules about salt in food, they are not allowed to add above a certain level of salt for health reasons. I can tell straight away when food has too much salt, an example of this was when I tried Grits a few years ago, a friend brought it back after a visit to the States. What I thought would be a nice oaty breakfast tasted like a bowl of salt then I checked the packet and noticed it was 40% sodium, that really shocked me. I never add salt while cooking, I always add a little bit of salt if I think the food needs it but never during cooking.

Almost everything processed has salt in it or added to it; read some of the cans of vegetables - I thought I was eating healthy when I was adding canned beans, beets and peas to my salads then I saw the amount of salt added to the water and jaw-dropped. Now I stick with frozen vegetables or the ones that I have dehydrated

yea,i can't remember the name of the brand-but the one we have downstairs is so loaded you can taste it.just reading labels on some products,i'm totally dumbfounded by the amounts of salt some contain.and it hardly seems necessary.

Yeah, low sodium diets usually say either don't use soy sauce or buy lower salt soy sauce (still lots of salt in, just less) and use sparingly like 1/2 the amount called for in th recipe.

I wasn't sure, but I suspected that it was fairly high in salt. I don't worry about how much salt I put on my food. I do like lots, but feel it is fine for me, as I have fairly low blood pressure. The Dr.'s have told me it is just barely in the normal range, fairly low. So, I think that my craving for a fair bit of salt is because of this maybe. I dunno.

There is a lot of salt in soy sauce but I love it...lol....I like salt but I don't salt everything. I used to hate it when I was little. I could taste a pinch of salt a mile away. I don't know when I started liking it but I did.

You are so attentive,I never know that soy sauce have so much sodium in it~~so that's what it is,it always taste so salty~thank you~I will pay some attention to it~