notbob wrote:
>
> On 2010-03-18, Steve B > wrote:
>
> > Another thing is the serving size. I just bought a jar of large pimento
> > stuffed green olives. A serving has 7% of the RDA. Guess what one serving
> > is: one olive. It helps to read the label.
>
> You actually need to read the label of pimento olives to know they are
> very salty?

Every time I buy olives, I run several changes
of water through the can over a period of maybe
an hour to lower the salt content.