Kraft To Cut Sodium Levels 10% Over Two Years
(New York, NY) -- Kraft Foods says it plans to cut sodium levels in its North American products by about ten percent over the next two years. The company joins others in the food and beverage sector making changes, due to growing government pressure to make their products healthier. Kraft's announcement comes the day after PepsiCo said it will halt sales of its full-sugar soft drinks to K-through-12 schools worldwide by 2012. Kraft says its sodium-cutting plan will take more than ten-million pounds of salt out of some of its most popular products such as Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Velveeta cheese. |