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"Yeah, yeah. You know you&amp;#039;re supposed to cut back on sodium and, while you&amp;#039;re intentions are good, your schedule isn&amp;#039;t quite so cooperative. That would be why you&amp;#039;ve just eaten your third fast-food lunch for the week and everyone knows that fast food and sodium go together as naturally as, well, French fries and salt.   Taco Bell \u2013 which doesn&amp;#039;t serve French fries, incidentally \u2013 has taken that extra step for you, in its Dallas-Forth Worth outlets, anyway. Apparently the Mexican-ish fast food chain has reduced the sodium in its offerings there by 23-percent. And they&amp;#039;ve been serving it up that way for the past two months. And they didn&amp;#039;t tell anyone.  And nobody noticed.  Two years ago, Taco Bell&amp;#039;s parent company, Yum! Brands, announced it would begin finding ways to cut back sodium levels in all their holdings which includes KFC and Pizza Hut.  &amp;quot;We recognize that we have an opportunity and a responsibility to make our consumers aware of their sodium intake,&amp;quot; Yum stated in its 2008 Corporate Responsibility Report, &amp;quot;and to offer food with lower sodium content.&amp;quot; What might have appeared to be just another corporate jump on the bandwagon seems to be a real honest-to-goodness long-distance ride that may go even farther.  &amp;quot;The food team back in [Taco Bell&amp;#039;s California base of] Irvine did a great job of replacing the sodium taste with the taste of other spices and other ingredients \u2026 which we think is a great thing for the brand and great thing for the industry,&amp;quot; Greg Creed, president of Taco Bell, said in story at Nation&amp;#039;s Restaurant News.  The company received no complaints at all about changes in flavor, he said. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s when you know you&amp;#039;ve been successful.&amp;quot; Taco Bell hasn&amp;#039;t committed to taking the experiment nationally although they say it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;likely&amp;quot;. Such a move would remove about 1 million pounds of sodium from their menu each year.  Of course, reading about all that sodium probably made you a little thirsty. Luckily, Taco Bell is offering a free Orange &amp;#039;n Creme Swirl Frutista Freeze with the presentation of a print-out coupon. Go for it: it&amp;#039;s only got a 150 milligrams of sodium. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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