Abstract
Health has been one of the most important matters for humans. Recently in Japan, excessive intake of salt is claimed to be one of the major causes of hypertension, arteriosclerosis, thrombosis and other life style-related diseases, and reduction of salt intake has been a serious problem. In 1998 Japanese consumed an average of 12.7 g of salt a day per head. The amount of salt intake recommended by the Ministry of Health and Welfare is 10.0 g (Ministry of Health, 1998). Thus the actual amount consumed was about 30 % more than the recommended amount. It is noted that considerable amount of salt is taken from soy sauce by Japanese and that 20 % or more of the total salt consumption is derived from foods containing soy sauce (Kawano, 1990).
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