Low sodium salt composition

A salt-carrier product formed by a process comprising:

• providing an aqueous salt-carrier slurry comprising an aqueous solvent and a selected percent by weight of a solids mixture, wherein the solids mixture comprises a salt present in an amount between about 2.5% by weight and less than 14.9% by weight of the aqueous solvent, and a carrier medium present in an amount between about 2.77% by weight and less than 25% by weight of the aqueous solvent, wherein the aqueous salt-carrier slurry comprises the salt plus the carrier in an amount of about 10% to 36% by weight of the aqueous salt-carrier slurry, wherein the aqueous salt-carrier slurry is prepared by heating the salt, the carrier, and water to a temperature of about 176° F.±10° F. until the water, salt, and carrier are substantially dissolved to a moisture content of about 1.2% to 5%;
• and
• exposing the aqueous salt-carrier slurry to a drying process to both:
• A) form a carrier particle comprised of the carrier medium;
• and B) form a plurality of salt particles of an average size of less than 100 nanometers on the surface of the carrier particle;
• wherein the salt carrier product adheres better to foods than salt that is not adhered to a carrier particle.