Salt to sodium conversion

mummypigmfp
mummypigmfp Posts: 5 Member
in Food and Nutrition

The easy way to convert salt to sodium is to multiply the grams of salt by 400 to determine the milligrammes of sodium. Salt in grams x 400 = sodium in milligrammes.

Practically every food I log, I have to update because, sadly, people obviously don't know the difference between salt and sodium. Moving the decimal point a couple of places is not the answer.

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,359 Member

    I often see the same thing, since our food labels in Belgium also specify same rather than sodium.

    I use this converter: https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/sodium-and-salt-converter

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