# lightly-salted-individual-food — FDA nutrient content claim qualification criteria

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, not quoted from the source)_
- **Claim term:** lightly salted _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Nutrient:** sodium _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Food format:** individual food (not a meal or main dish product) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Threshold:** 50 percent less sodium than is normally added to the reference food _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **CFR section:** 21 CFR 101.56(g) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Special conditions:** if the product is not “low in sodium” as defined in _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## 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) .

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101/subpart-D

Last verified: 2026-08-17. Review by: 2027-08-17.
Part of [FDA nutrient content claim qualification criteria](https://referencesource.org/fda-nutrient-content-claim-criteria/).