Sodium content
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:42 am
As everyone knows, freeze dried meals (i.e. mountain house) have very high sodium content, 1000-1300 per single serving, 2000-2600 per double serving. Max intake per day of sodium is 2500mg, but its recommended not to consume 1500mgs daily. Eating one of those double serving meals which I often will as the single servings just aren't quite enough, puts me above the recommended and around the max intake. Now say you have 3 cliff bars during the day (at 120-140mg each) plus trail mix and other food thats another 400-600mg's of sodium. So I wouldn't be worried about consuming say 3000-3400mg for one day (add 1000 more if you each one of their breakfasts), but say one does this over 5 days. What are the effects?
It's just such a hassle to bring ingredients to actually cook something, and doing so almost always increases the weight of your pack, and the freeze-dried meals are so easy and simple. What are your thought on this matter? I tried looking around other threads but couldn't find much regarding this.
It's just such a hassle to bring ingredients to actually cook something, and doing so almost always increases the weight of your pack, and the freeze-dried meals are so easy and simple. What are your thought on this matter? I tried looking around other threads but couldn't find much regarding this.