Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing has a philosophy of creating truly nourishing food, made from whole food ingredients as close to their natural state as possible. As part of this emphasis on nature’s whole plant foods, Sanitarium recognises the importance of making foods with a lower sodium (salt) content to help consumers on their health and wellbeing journey.

As part of our Food Policy, Sanitarium considers minimising sodium as a significant factor when developing new products.

In addition to our extensive range of foods and beverages that meet the criteria for low in salt (<120mg sodium/100g), we have also recently developed several new products that are low in salt. These include:

• Weet-Bix Kids – now with No Added Salt
• Light n Tasty Macadamia and Honey with Oat Clusters – low in salt
• Up & Go yoghurts – low in salt.

Sanitarium recognises the challenge of balancing sodium content in foods for its functionality along with our commitment to continue to reduce the sodium content in our current product range. We have recently completed a number of projects to reduce the sodium levels in a range of our foods. These include:

• Sanitarium Cornflakes – sodium reduced by 25%
• Weet-Bix Bites Golden Crumble – sodium reduced by 16%.

We are continuing to make further reductions in sodium across a range of our foods.

Drop the Salt!

The Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health (AWASH) recognises the benefits to our wellbeing that can be achieved by reducing people’s sodium intake. AWASH works with Food Industry, including Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing Company, to lower sodium within our food supply. Download AWASH’s Salt and Health Brochure (PDF, 1.3 MB).