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Calculating sodium

nxtiv
nxtiv Posts: 26 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
So I got the spice sumac the other day and I put about two tablespoons of it onto my salad it was delicious; I thought it was just the spice but turns out they add salt to preserve it. Per 100 grams =2730 mg of sodium, how much sodium would that be for 2 tablespoons of it? It's a ground spice, I'm really stressing over this because I need to be low sodium in my diet, so how do I calculate the sodium I have based on the info I know?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    It's hard to tell because a tablespoon is a measurement of volume rather than weight
  • nxtiv
    nxtiv Posts: 26 Member
    I know that 1 tablespoon =3g haha I feel like a math textbook problem, never thought I'd need it!
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    So 1 Tbsp. sumac spice = 3g, and 100g of sumac spice contains 2730mg sodium.
    You used 2 Tbsp. or 6g.
    6g sumac spice x (2730mg sodium / 100g sumac spice) = 163.8mg sodium
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