4. Instant pudding
In general, if something is ‘instant,’ you shouldn’t buy it. You can’t really make something healthy in an instant. And we bet that you’re pretty confused since pudding doesn’t actually taste salty at all, but we will clarify everything.
Yes, it is not salty, but there’s an abundant amount of sodium in most instant pudding brands out there. Even worse, the sodium is not only from salt alone but from additives, too. The most common sodium-containing additives used in instant pudding are tetrasodium pyrophosphate and disodium phosphate.
Without the two, your instant pudding won’t be thick (not like a brick, more like an apple left in the sun). So, how much sodium a 25-gram portion of instant vanilla pudding contains? It has approximately 350 milligrams of sodium (15 percent of the RDI).
If you love pudding, go regular, not instant! The exact same amount of regular vanilla pudding packs just 135 milligrams of sodium or 6 percent of the RDI.
