Fruits and vegetables are low in sodium.

Meaning: This means that fruits and vegetables are healthy choices for people who want to eat less salt.

Choice of Words: Fruits are the sweet and fleshy parts of plants that contain seeds. Vegetables are the edible parts of plants, such as roots, stems, and leaves. Low means a small amount of something. Sodium is a mineral found in salt. When you put them together, it means that fruits and vegetables do not have much salt in them.

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Fruits and vegetables are not salty.

Meaning: This means that fruits and vegetables don't have much of the taste that we get from salt. They don't make our tongues feel like they're burning, and they don't make us want to drink a lot of water.

Choice of Words: The word "salty" means tasting like salt. Fruits and vegetables don't have much salt in them, so they don't taste salty. Instead, they have a more sweet or sour taste.

Fruits and vegetables don't have much of the stuff that makes things taste salty.

Meaning: This means that there's not much of the thing in fruits and vegetables that makes our tongues feel like they're burning when we eat something salty. That's why fruits and vegetables don't taste salty.

Choice of Words: The word "stuff" means something that we can't see or touch, but it's still there. In this case, the "stuff" is the chemical that makes things taste salty. Fruits and vegetables don't have much of this chemical, so they don't taste salty.

Fruits and vegetables are not like chips or fries.

Meaning: This means that fruits and vegetables don't taste like the salty foods that we might like to eat, like chips or fries. They have a different taste that is not as salty.

Choice of Words: Chips and fries are both salty foods. They have a lot of the chemical that makes things taste salty. Fruits and vegetables don't have much of this chemical, so they don't taste like chips or fries.

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