What Verella checks for high blood pressure
Turn on high blood pressure in your profile and one extra rule runs on every label. It is one rule because sodium is the thing packaged-food labels actually let you act on.
The rule
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Sodium is 0.6 g or more per 100 g, which is about 1.5 g of salt
High in sodium. General guidance suggests reducing sodium can support healthy blood pressure. Consider lower-sodium options.
Source: American Heart Association sodium guidance; World Health Organization, sodium intake for adults, under 2 g per day
What this looks like on a real product
A white sandwich bread, 0.64 g of sodium per 100 g, which is about 1.6 g of salt.
Scanned with no conditions set
Fine in moderationSodium is noted and weighed against everything else on the label.
The same loaf, scanned with high blood pressure turned on
Better occasionallyThe sodium clears the threshold, so it stops being one note among many and drops the loaf a tier. Bread is the quiet one here. Nobody thinks of it as salty.
Both verdicts above are real output from the shipped Verella engine, run on live Open Food Facts data on 5 October 2026, with only the condition changed between the two profiles. Open Food Facts data changes over time, so a scan today can differ.
Worth knowing
- Labels declare salt in some countries and sodium in others. Verella converts salt to sodium before testing the threshold, so the same product behaves the same way whichever way its label is printed.
- Sodium is already part of every score Verella gives, scaled to your own daily targets. Turning this condition on makes the note explicit and gives it more weight.
These rules encode broadly published patient guidance and are hedged on purpose. Verella cannot know your disease activity, your medication or what your care team has already advised, so every note defers to them.
Verella provides general nutrition information. It is not medical or dietary advice and it is not a substitute for a doctor or a registered dietitian.
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The ingredient watchlist runs on every scan as well, whatever conditions you have set. How the engine puts it all together.