bell peppers!

LoosingMyLast15
LoosingMyLast15 Posts: 1,457 Member
in Food and Nutrition
had 1/4 cup of bell peppers in my salad today (red and yellow) entered it into my food diary and nearly fell off my desk chair. never realized how much sodium they had until today! i watch my sodium because i retain water like crazy and too much makes my feet swell like balloons. is it true or did i perhaps select a bogus entry?

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  • Strokingdiction
    Strokingdiction Posts: 1,164 Member
    4mg per 100g for a red bell pepper
  • AlabasterVerve
    AlabasterVerve Posts: 3,171 Member
    If they were fresh peppers your cut up yourself then, yes, you picked the wrong entry. Use these entries instead:

    Peppers - Sweet, red, raw
    Peppers - Sweet, yellow, raw
  • ValeriePlz
    ValeriePlz Posts: 517 Member
    Google can tell you nutritional information for many whole foods, with a "label" that looks exactly like packaged foods that appears all the way to the right of the screen.

    When I Googled bell peppers, one medium bell pepper had 4 mg sodium.
  • LoosingMyLast15
    LoosingMyLast15 Posts: 1,457 Member
    If they were fresh peppers your cut up yourself then, yes, you picked the wrong entry. Use these entries instead:

    Peppers - Sweet, red, raw
    Peppers - Sweet, yellow, raw

    i'm thinking i did exactly that picked the wrong entry because yes fresh pepper nothing done to it. all i did was pick up 2 rings from the salad bar at the grocery store. one was red and the other yellow.
  • LoosingMyLast15
    LoosingMyLast15 Posts: 1,457 Member
    YUP!!!! picked the wrong entries! just another reason why it's SO important to read/watch what you select in the food entries. :bigsmile:

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