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[Myth:] Adding salt to home-cooked food is a major source of dietary sodium.

Remember that by cooking at home you are already well on your way to managing or even reducing your salt intake, because you can control how much you use. Salt in homemade food is less of an issue than in prepared and processed food, where it may show up in large quantities or in unexpected items. More than 70 percent of sodium in American diets comes from restaurant and packaged food, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — in other words, “not the salt shaker.”

Washington Post | 7 myths about cooking with salt