sodium content in beet greens???

mjrc2

How on earth does fresh steamed beet greens, plain with no added salt have SO MUCH sodium? Someone please explain!

janejellyroll

Are you sure you have an accurate database entry?

janejellyroll

USDA database gives me a value of 78 mg of sodium for 100 grams of raw beet greens.

mjrc2

Yeah, I think the website's info is a little off, it has 600+ mg of sodium for 1 cup of beet greens, Thanks, I thought that # was crazy-I will be fixing that tonight. I have to figure out how to add my own stuff on the food tracker...there has got to be a more efficient way.

cwolfman13

mjrc2 wrote: »

Yeah, I think the website's info is a little off, it has 600+ mg of sodium for 1 cup of beet greens, Thanks, I thought that # was crazy-I will be fixing that tonight. I have to figure out how to add my own stuff on the food tracker...there has got to be a more efficient way.

when you're using the database and looking for fresh veggies, meats, etc just tag it with USDA...ie "beet greens USDA" or some such thing.

mjrc2

Thanks!