2013年4月7日 星期日

Swallow Soup or Swallow Sodium?


Excessive sodium intake can cause edema, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, kidney and coronary heart disease.

People like food at convenience store for expediency. Easy to taste in a stick, Japanese oden is within choices. Sometimes people also add oden soup. In an online poll which 98 people conducted, 94 responders have eaten oden of convenience stores. 37 of 94 would add half bowl of soup and 36 add over eighty percent full. 


However, people hardly know high sodium level hides just in the soup. Actually, the average bowl of soup — 80 percent full —contains between 600mg and 1,400mg of salt. The significant variance arises from clerks adjusting soup flavor following individual palette, continuously heating but not adding water periodically. After showing those polled the sodium variance of oden soup and possible disease as lavish sodium intake, 73 responders still chose to continue purchasing oden and add reasonable soup. 

‘‘There is a device for testing the salinity of the oden soup and the official procedures to dilute soup are a pack of condensed soup powder with 1500cc water and pressing the heating button whenever adding water inside,’’ the clerks working at convenience stores were interviewed and mentioned. As for the timing to add water depends on clerks free or not and the amount of water inside the soup.

Concerning the sodium variance of oden soup, consumers seem to react rationally according to the survey. It is everyone’s duty to take care of individual health and also other’s when working in service 



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