Junk Food Ban/Regulation

[Michael-5]

JoeTheBro said:

Michael-5 said:

What the heck is a PSS?

I know pop has anywhere between 40-90mg of Na per 335ml (12 oz) can. You need 1,500mg of salt a day, so a pop can ranges from 2-4.5% of your salt intake. Salt-Water is 3.5% salt. Pop has anywhere from half to nearly one and a half times the salt of saltwater.

Can you live on saltwater? No.

Random google searches tell me that the Human salinity is 0.9%, meaning any liquid with more then 0.9% salt will make you thirstier.

PSS is grams of salt to kg of water. It's just a unit. Also do you even read what people are posting? The can of coke I used for my calculations was only .013% salt by mass compared to seawater which is around 3.2% That soda is not anywhere near even a tenth of the salt in sea water.

Oh I see what I did wrong. Normally I'm good at math too.

Still, there is too much salt in pop, we shouldn't be getting 1/6th our daily salt intake from liquids alone. Meat and Cheese + junk food already has a lot of salt.