8. Canned soups

A complete meal that is easy to prepare is soup, but if you are using the canned variety instead of making it from scratch using fresh ingredients, you may be putting yourself and the people you are serving it to at risk for hypertension. Canned and packaged broths and stocks can contain as much as 900mg of sodium in one serving. This is already more than half of the recommended daily allowance for the mineral. Finishing the whole can would mean that you have ingested 2,000mg of sodium, a recipe for high blood pressure and heart disease.