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Swapping table salt for a potassium-enriched version could prevent nearly three million deaths a year worldwide, a study finds

Potassium-enriched salt replaces some sodium chloride with potassium chloride yet looks, tastes and cooks identically to regular table salt.
Potassium-enriched salt replaces some sodium chloride with potassium chloride yet looks, tastes and cooks identically to regular table salt.

Researchers at The George Institute for Global Health modelled outcomes across 193 countries and found that replacing the global salt supply with a potassium-enriched alternative could save nearly three million lives a year worldwide and prevent ten million new diagnoses of cardiovascular and kidney disease each year. In Britain alone, the change could save almost 13,000 lives and prevent 60,000 cases of those diseases each year. Published in the journal Nature Health, the study is the first to quantify the potential global impact of such a switch.

Potassium-enriched salt looks, tastes and cooks identically to regular table salt but replaces some sodium chloride with potassium chloride.

The World Health Organization endorsed potassium-enriched salt last year to reduce blood pressure and cardiovascular risk.

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