Shrimp is one great food I can still eat. The days of telling people with heart problems to avoid shell fish seem to be past, at least among the nutritionists I’ve seen.
But normally shrimp gets dipped in cocktail sauce to add some flavor. Cocktail sauce is, you guessed it, high in sodium, however.
A tablespoon of traditional Trader Joe’s Shrimp Cocktail Sauce has 155 mgs of sodium, for example. Others I’ve seen are much higher, too high for me to eat them.
So I was happy to find another Trader Joe’s product, called its Seafood Cocktail Sauce. The seafood sauce, which includes horseradish, has only 10 mgs of sodium per teaspoon. At three teaspoons to the tablespoon, that means it has 30 mgs per tablespoon, 125 less than other shrimp cocktail sauce.
The product definitely tastes different than other cocktail sauces I’ve had over the years. The lack of salt seems to have been compensated for with more of a hot pepper flavoring. So don’t expect the taste you were accustomed too with the salty versions.
But it is nice to have something to put on shrimp to add a little flavor, so this is a product I’d buy again.
John
