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Many of us think a little extra salt or sugar on our favorite foods won't hurt. However, we keep thinking this day after day. Eventually these seemingly “harmless” condiments could end up killing you and the ones you love!

The Condiments That Could Kill You Are:

Salt
Salt makes food taste good. In order to prevent all the extra salt in your system from becoming toxic, your kidneys have to reduce the amount of water and other fluids they remove to keep the salt diluted. Extra fluid means extra volume, and that means higher pressure, putting strain on everything from your heart, to your kidneys, and the arteries themselves. Over an extended period of time this extra pressure can cause kidney disease and failure, hardening and narrowing of the arteries , heart attacks, and strokes.

Sugar
When you binge on sugar, your blood sugar level rises rapidly, prompting your pancreas to release insulin, which attempts to balance that level by converting some of it as fat. If your blood sugar level increases too fast, the pancreas can overproduce insulin and potentially drop those levels too far, making you crave sugar again. All this carries risks of diabetes, obesity, and heart problems.

Barbecue sauce
Meat is soaked in it for hours before being cooked, then the sauce is constantly reapplied during cooking until it has reduced down and formed a sticky, sweet, mouth-watering glaze. Unfortunately, because the sauce is constantly being reduced to a glaze on the surface, a much larger quantity of sauce ends up on the meat. And that includes the salt, sugar, corn syrup molasses , and a great big dollop of tomato ketchup.

Sriracha
The problem with sriracha is it's kind of addictive in a “this tastes so good I want to put it on everything” kind of way. Which means the relatively small amounts of bad stuff that you would occasionally add to a stir fry, becomes a relatively small amount of bad stuff you're eating all the time. Sriracha's biggest problem is really just all the salt it contains: 100 mg in a teaspoon, or 4 percent of your recommended daily allowance.

Mayonnaise
Mayo is the king of condiments. Mayo is also the daddy of the condiments since it has spawned any number of spin off condiments like ranch dressing, horseradish sauce, tartar sauce, and Remoulade sauce, not to mention all the variations that are made by adding something extra, like garlic mayo, sriracha mayo, curry mayo, herbed mayo…And that's a bad thing. Mayo isn't just a salt and sugar delivery system. It has other ways to kill you too, especially if you're allergic to eggs.

The crucial ingredient in mayonnaise that sets it apart from all the rest is the uncooked egg yolk, which brings cholesterol into the equation, not to mention the risk of salmonella if the egg yolk isn't pasteurized first.

Soy sauce
Soy sauce contains 36 percent of your recommended daily allowance in a single tablespoon, or 879 mg. Soy sauce is made from the fermented paste of soybeans and can contain up to two percent alcohol, which makes it virtually liquor.

Are You Going To Use Condiments?

Now that you know how bad condiments can be for you, you may decide to use them a little less. Have you used a large amount of these condiments before?

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Article Source: Grunge