Oh noo! 3556mg Sodium!?!

Greenline30
Greenline30 Posts: 36 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm so disheartened. I made turkey chili today for dinner and to my horror each serving is 3556mg of sodium. Is this right? I used Recipes and added each ingredient manually and I weighted EVERYTHING.

2 lbs ground turkey
2 30oz cans dark red kidney beans drained
2 cans petite diced tomatoes undrained
1 chopped yellow onion
1 can tomato paste
2 cups water

It all came to weight 3357 mg. I portioned out my bowl and that was 390 grams so I divided that and it came to 8.5 servings, so I rounded down to 8 servings. I'm super new at all this. Please be gentle. I don't normally scrutinize my cooking, but that sodium is freaking me out. Help please.

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  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    edited October 2015
    Did you check the sodium listed on the labels against the ones you used in the recipe builder?
    I've had the same thing happen where one of the ingredients had a crazy amount of sodium listed incorrectly.
  • Greenline30
    Greenline30 Posts: 36 Member
    I just checked and the sodium matches the can I have :( I didn't realize canned foods had so much sodium
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,192 Member
    S&W, Hunts, and Eden Organics have low sodium canned beans and tomatoes. That is what I use in all my cooking. You can add extra chili and cumin for extra chili flavor without the added salt. I don't use tomato paste in my chili so I don't know how much sodium, is in the can. I also think that turkey ground may be higher in sodium than beef. I don't like turkey chili so I use beef.
    Make the portion smaller (200 grams instead of 390 grams), and add a salad to your meal, so you will eat less sodium/meal. Just a thought.
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    Unless you have a medical reason to restrict sodium, it's not going to be harmful to you. Even for people with hypertension, it's debatable whether sodium restriction produces meaningful changes. About the only group of people that should actually really worry are those with kidney disorders.
  • Greenline30
    Greenline30 Posts: 36 Member
    Thank you for the responses. I'm confused by the high sodium because I added up the sodium mg from each ingredient and divided it by the number of servings and I got 680mg. Someone please help me understand how one serving of homemade turkey chili (no added salt) could be equivalent to the amount of sodium in fast food. Could Recipes have made a mistake?

    Turkey: 720mg soldium
    2 Canned tomatoes: 2520mg sodium
    1 can tomato paste: 100mg sodium
    2 30z cans kidney beans 2080mg sodium
    1 onion 6mg sodium
    total: 5426mg
  • Greenline30
    Greenline30 Posts: 36 Member
    Alrighty so apparently Recipes is glitchy and can at times be very incorrect. I deleted my recipe and then manually entered all of the ingredients again, and this time it worked. 780mg sodium makes way more sense than 3557mg per serving.

    Just an FYI to all who read this :)
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  • Noreenmarie1234
    Noreenmarie1234 Posts: 7,492 Member
    I sometimes eat up to 4000-7000 sodium :(
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,739 Member
    edited October 2015
    Greenline30 wrote: »
    I just checked and the sodium matches the can I have :( I didn't realize canned foods had so much sodium

    That's part of the preserving process ... lots of salt. Often quite a bit of sugar too. Canned goods can be sneaky that way. :)

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