{"id":8467,"date":"2025-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/salt-blog\/portugal-quietly-reduces-salt-in-packaged-foods-by-15\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:00:00","slug":"portugal-quietly-reduces-salt-in-packaged-foods-by-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/salt-blog\/portugal-quietly-reduces-salt-in-packaged-foods-by-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Quietly Reduces Salt in Packaged Foods by 15%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2018 and 2023, Portugal cut salt content in packaged foods by nearly 15% without altering consumer habits, according to a DGS report. The reformulation targeted items like snacks, cereals, bread, and ready meals.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative led to a nationwide reduction of 18 tons of salt. Officials are now considering expanding the program to other products like cheese and charcuterie to further improve public health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2018 and 2023, Portugal cut salt content in packaged foods by nearly 15% without altering consumer habits, according to a DGS report. The reformulation targeted items like snacks, cereals, bread, and ready meals. This initiative led to a nationwide reduction of 18 tons of salt. Officials are now considering expanding the program to other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}