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TIL labels can round sodium down to 0. (Instead of 3mg) FDA: "A statement of the number of milligrams of sodium in a specified serving of food expressed as zero when the serving contains less than 5 milligrams of sodium, to the nearest 5-milligram increment when the serving contains 5 to 140 ..."

I don’t get why they don’t just put the actual amount? Is it really just… corruption/lobbying?

Some way of being able to say “zero sugar / fat / salt / …”, which they’ll turn into “perfectly healthy” some day, I suppose.