40 Foods To Avoid After 40

Published on October 27, 2019 By Chloe Draws

Pickles

Pickles can be addicting as they provide both sweet and salt and most people believe they are much healthier than eating a bag of potato chips as they are fat-free and low in calories . However, people don’t actually consider that the brine used to soak the pickles in is packed with sodium and removes a lot of the nutrition out of the cucumbers.

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Just two small spears of pickles contain around 600mg in sodium which is more than one-quarter of the daily recommended limit. High sodium foods have also been linked to stomach cancer.