OMAHA, Neb.—ConAgra Foods, Inc. has pledged to reduce salt across its portfolio of food products by 20 percent by 2015. Since 2006, the company has already removed more than 2 million pounds of salt from it products. The new pledge adds 8 million pounds of salt to the equation, with the company ultimately removing 10 million pounds of salt from American diets each year.
The scope of the ConAgra Foods’ salt reduction is broad and diverse, including as many as 20 brands, 160 product varieties (formulas), and all temperature categories in the supermarket.
“ConAgra Foods has the ability to make an impact on sodium in a very broad way,” said Al Bolles, PhD, executive vice president, Research, Quality & Innovation, ConAgra Foods. “What that means is that we’ll need to use different techniques to keep or enhance the taste of all types of food in our portfolio, from Hunt’s® tomatoes to Marie Callender’s® convenient meals to Fleischmann’s® table spreads. This is a definite challenge—but one that is very worthwhile and one we are confident that we can meet.”
The company will track its work in sodium reduction and make it publicly available each year through the ConAgra Foods Corporate Social Responsibility report, published at www.conagrafoods.com.
