Mussels were once one of my favorite seafood restaurant choices, but these days I rarely order them because they’re made in sauces that include lots of salt and/or butter. Mussels are naturally salty, so adding salt makes no sense on my low-salt diet.

Trying to buy them prepared in the frozen case of a supermarket presented the same problems, until I found this variety.

As you can see on the nutritional panel, there’s about 520 mgs of salt in a package of these, which is about a third of my daily requirement. Continue reading “A mussel options that keeps the salt relatively low” →