Entering of Salt to the Food Database

Alycyn1980

I am not sure if this has been covered or not but something I have noticed is the input to the food database for this is either non-existent or in a lot of cases wrong.

The reason I have noticed this is I am part of a group which has been tracking its Sodium intake and are trying to stay under 2500mg a day. This is hard to track for the above reasons so although my diary is telling me I am under 2500mg the likelihood of this is unlikely!

Correct me if I am wrong but food packing is given in grams but the database for entering salt is milligrams. So for instance if the packaging says 0.50g then this should be entered as 50mg & not 0.5.

Just thought I would bring this up for anyone else that is trying to watch the salt intake - luckily for me I hardly ever add to salt to anything now