Sodium

barbjdennis

How can there be 409 sodium in 1cup egg whites if you don't add salt to the eggs.

cwolfman13

barbjdennis wrote: »

How can there be 409 sodium in 1cup egg whites if you don't add salt to the eggs.

There aren't...you have selected an erroneous entry from the database. Database entries are user created...you selected a generic egg whites entry that was some other users "recipe" for egg whites. Either select the brand of egg whites you're using or do a search for something like "egg whites USDA"

alively1977

What

sugaraddict4321

A cup of egg whites is actually quite a large serving.

The USDA entry that @cwolfman13 mentions above shows this:
One egg white weighs about 33 grams (volume 32 ml) and contains about 55 mg naturally occurring sodium.

Now scale that up. A full cup of any liquid is 240 ml so you're looking at 7.5 egg whites in that cup. 7.5 egg whites x 55 mg sodium = 412.5 mg sodium

Unless your doctor has given you a medical reason to restrict sodium, I would not stress over the amount of sodium that naturally occurs in whole foods such as eggs.

Here's a screen shot of the USDA entry for one egg:

cwolfman13

barbjdennis wrote: »

How can there be 409 sodium in 1cup egg whites if you don't add salt to the eggs.

Actually, I amend my previous post. I went to the USDA website and it states that 1 cup of egg whites has 403 grams of naturally occurring sodium...that said, 1 cup of egg whites is a *kitten* ton of egg whites.