lightly-salted-individual-food
For lightly-salted-individual-food, claim term is lightly salted; nutrient is sodium; food format is individual food (not a meal or main dish product); threshold is 50 percent less sodium than is normally added to the reference food; cfr section is 21 CFR 101.56(g), recorded from its source on 2026-08-17.
- Claim ID
- lightly-salted-individual-food our reading
- Claim term
- lightly salted verified
- Nutrient
- sodium our reading
- Food format
- individual food (not a meal or main dish product) our reading
- Threshold
- 50 percent less sodium than is normally added to the reference food verified
- CFR section
- 21 CFR 101.56(g) our reading
- Special conditions
- if the product is not “low in sodium” as defined in verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
The term “lightly salted” may be used on a product to which has been added 50 percent less sodium than is normally added to the reference food as described in <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-101.13#p-101.13(j)(1)(i)(B)> § 101.13(j)(1)(i)(B) and <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-101.13#p-101.13(j)(1)(ii)(B)> (j)(1)(ii)(B) , provided that if the product is not “low in sodium” as defined in <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-101.61#p-101.61(b)(4)> § 101.61(b)(4) , the statement “not a low sodium food,” shall appear adjacent to the nutrition label of the food bearing the claim, or, if the nutrition label is on the information panel, it may appear elsewhere on the information panel in accordance with <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-101.2> § 101.2 and the information required to accompany a relative claim shall appear on the label or labeling as specified in <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-101.13#p-101.13(j)(2)> § 101.13(j)(2) .
— ecfr.gov, retrieved 2026-08-17
Source
- ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101/subpart-D