Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes: WHO guideline (2025)
The 2025 World Health Organization guideline on salt substitutes that have part of their sodium replaced with potassium. It suggests that adults in general populations who use table salt replace it with such a substitute, but not people with kidney problems, children or pregnant women.
- Guideline
- In this atlas
Overview
Technical summary
WHO guideline dated 27 January 2025 on the WHO publication page; the PDF title page shows only the year 2025. ISBN 978-92-4-010559-1 (electronic version), licence CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. The recommendation this atlas records from it is conditional, and WHO rates the certainty of the evidence as low overall under GRADE. WHO says global guidance on these substitutes was lacking, and addresses the guideline to policy-makers at all levels. Whether a later WHO edition replaces it was not checked.
About this guideline
- Issued by
- Edition
- WHO guideline, 2025. The WHO page dates it 27 January 2025 and the PDF title page shows only the year.
- Published
- 2025-01-27
- Status
- Not checked for a newer edition
- Scope
- Discretionary use of lower-sodium salt substitutes as table salt by adults in general populations. It leaves out people with kidney impairment or other conditions that could impair potassium excretion, and the WHO text says it is not meant for pregnant women or children. It does not cover sodium-containing condiments such as soy sauce, or the salt already in manufactured and restaurant foods.
Source
- Document
- Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes: WHO guideline
- Publisher
- World Health Organization
- Edition note
- Guideline dated 27 January 2025 on the WHO page; English PDF from WHO IRIS, both fetched 2026-10-11. The PDF title page shows only the year 2025.
Recommendations
Record details
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