why do frozen dinners have such high sodium/salt content when frozen meat can last up to a year before going bad?

Question

I was watching a guy on yt review hungry man tv dinners and one of the TV dinners had 2,400 mgs of sodium. Why do they add so much?

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Answer 1

Salt/sodium is cheap and makes things taste good. It has nothing to do with preservation.

Salt is cheaper than every other spice, so they pack in cheap and shitty ingredients, and mask how shitty it is with salt and MSG, another popular form of sodium.