When can you be less careful about salt?

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Just wondering what age you can be less careful with salt? I thinking using common salty ingredients like soy sauce, fish sauce, hoisin sauce, stock powder (the normal one rather than low salt one) rather than deliberately adding salt to food? I would like to intruduce my DD to some Chinese and Thai inspired food but all my favourite recipes have either soy sauce or fish sauce. I've already used some cheese in cooking and a lot of baby recipes do include cheese which I know is quite salty but healthy in other ways. My baby is coming up to 11 months now. What age did you stop worrying so much about salt - around 1 or closer to 2 or even older?

You can buy lower salt versions of most Thai sauces and can barely taste the difference.

My HV told me age 2 was when you didn't need to be careful with salt anymore.

On the topic of Thai though, you can just cook up the curry without the fish sauce and it doesn't impact the flavour, I often cook for vegan relatives and that's how we do Thai curry. The paste shouldn't inherently have any salt added (but do check on the off-chance) and nor should the coconut milk.

I never really thought about to be honest. I didn't add salt to food but otherwise let them try all sorts including things with salty ingredients, figured the amounts they would be ingesting would be pretty tiny anyway?

@PuffinsRocks I disagree - the fish sauce adds loads of flavour!
I would just cook as normal and not add salt (so use the sauces but don't add extra).
It's not every meal and think people really overthink this sort of thing.

Around 1. A dash of soy sauce or whatever in a recipe that supposedly feeds 4 people and baby is having not even a half portion, how much salt can they really be consuming?

You can definitely get lower salt soy sauce.
The danger with salt is too much over a long period of time. One saltier than usual meal per week won't be a problem if generally food is home cooked - no added salt.

I tend to do a mixture at 18 months old. A dash of soy or fish sauce is fine in relation to the small amount they eat. A stock cube I tend to use the low salt ones and don’t add any table salt either.