Cargill unveils, SaltWise, a salt substitute

The world's largest manufacturer of salt now makes a salt substitute. Food ingredient giant Cargill Inc. claims that the substitute, called SaltWise, can reduce sodium in packaged foods by 25 to 50 percent without a loss of flavor. What's in it? The company won't say, at least not yet. "We're still finishing up some intellectual property in that area," said Timm Adams, technical development manager at Cargill. The ingredients will eventually become public, most likely when a food company lists them on its packaging of a product that uses SaltWise, Adams said.

The product probably won't appear on store shelves until early next year. A meat company may be the first to use SaltWise: The J&B Group's No Name brand of meats, the No. 1 frozen steak brand in the country, says it has developed steak, chicken and pork products with 33 percent less sodium using SaltWise.

Steve - we can only imagine what the ingredients will be. Stay tuned...our detective skills may turn something up before you see it on labels!