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      FDA: "Daily Value on the New Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels"
    
      USDA FoodData: "Sauerkraut, canned, solids and liquids"
    
      Annals of Internal Medicine: "Single-Component Versus Multicomponent Dietary Goals for the Metabolic Syndrome"
    
      Harvard Health Publishing: "Should I be eating more fiber?"
    
      International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity: "Reductions to main meal portion sizes reduce daily energy intake regardless of perceived normality of portion size: a 5 day cross-over laboratory experiment"
    
      Obesity: "Probiotic supplementation attenuates increases in body mass and fat mass during high‐fat diet in healthy young adults"
    
      Nutrients: "Fermented Foods: Definitions and Characteristics, Impact on the Gut Microbiota and Effects on Gastrointestinal Health and Disease"
    
      American Heart Association: "How Potassium Can Help Control High Blood Pressure"
    
      American Heart Association: "How much sodium should I eat per day?"
    




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      FDA: "Daily Value on the New Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels"
    
      USDA FoodData: "Sauerkraut, canned, solids and liquids"
    
      Annals of Internal Medicine: "Single-Component Versus Multicomponent Dietary Goals for the Metabolic Syndrome"
    
      Harvard Health Publishing: "Should I be eating more fiber?"
    
      International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity: "Reductions to main meal portion sizes reduce daily energy intake regardless of perceived normality of portion size: a 5 day cross-over laboratory experiment"
    
      Obesity: "Probiotic supplementation attenuates increases in body mass and fat mass during high‐fat diet in healthy young adults"
    
      Nutrients: "Fermented Foods: Definitions and Characteristics, Impact on the Gut Microbiota and Effects on Gastrointestinal Health and Disease"
    
      American Heart Association: "How Potassium Can Help Control High Blood Pressure"
    
      American Heart Association: "How much sodium should I eat per day?"