Buying "healthy" food may be unhealthy

There are a number of reasons why I've been trying to do more cooking rather than just buying. There's a lot of unhealthy food out there, and sometimes its hard to tell what's healthy and what's not.

Researchers analyzed 37 common supermarket items and found large amounts of sodium in unexpected places, including some products that don't even taste salty.

... "Our analysis found that lower-fat products might be higher in sodium. That's in part because when fat is taken out of full-fat foods, sodium is sometimes used to compensate for flavor," Jamie Hirsh, associate health editor at Consumer Reports, said in a news release.

(Excerpted from the Washington Post)

One of the foods that the article picks on is V8. For something supposedly healthy it's amazing just how much sodium it contains. (I switched to their low-sodium variety a few years back, and am now draining a bottle or two a week of a similar product even lower in sodium).