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Sodium g instead of mg

charliemarie923
charliemarie923 Posts: 275 Member
in Feature Suggestions and Ideas
I think you should make salt measurements in g instead of mg, because people always write it in grams anyway and it messes up my nutrition goals.
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  • nsk1951
    nsk1951 Posts: 1,304 Member
    edited March 2023
    OH NO! ... When a recipe is written, the amount of salt used is given in teaspoons or in grams ... but that is not the amount of SODIUM in that salt! MG is used for how much total sodium is in the food.
    1 teaspoon of salt is 2300 mg of sodium. ... that's the max recommended per day per person. ... and that is set by the 'powers that be' and not by MyFitnessPal ...

    1/4 teaspoon salt = 575 mg sodium. 1/2 teaspoon salt = 1,150 mg sodium. 3/4 teaspoon salt = 1,725 mg sodium. 1 teaspoon salt = 2,300 mg sodium.

    ... Please don't mess with how sodium is recorded.
  • Creamtea42
    Creamtea42 Posts: 285 Member
    I agree! This maths drives me crazy! X by 4 & then x by 1000…. Another user signposted me to the Au heart foundation and the sodium - salt converter!
  • charliemarie923
    charliemarie923 Posts: 275 Member
    nsk1951 wrote: »
    OH NO! ... When a recipe is written, the amount of salt used is given in teaspoons or in grams ... but that is not the amount of SODIUM in that salt! MG is used for how much total sodium is in the food.
    1 teaspoon of salt is 2300 mg of sodium. ... that's the max recommended per day per person. ... and that is set by the 'powers that be' and not by MyFitnessPal ...

    1/4 teaspoon salt = 575 mg sodium. 1/2 teaspoon salt = 1,150 mg sodium. 3/4 teaspoon salt = 1,725 mg sodium. 1 teaspoon salt = 2,300 mg sodium.

    ... Please don't mess with how sodium is recorded.

    I am soooo stupid lol I thought sodium WAS salt !! I am embarrassed!
  • charliemarie923
    charliemarie923 Posts: 275 Member
    I still stand by what i said, just got the differneve wrong. Been looking on the German Doner Kebab menu, and their sodium is written seperately to salt, but the sodium is STILL in grams.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,316 Member
    charlieelizabeth923 wrote: »
    I still stand by what i said, just got the differneve wrong. Been looking on the German Doner Kebab menu, and their sodium is written seperately to salt, but the sodium is STILL in grams.

    If the sodium is in grams, it must have a lot of sodium since 2300 mg is 2.3 grams, and that is the recommended maximum for the day. If that food has its sodium in grams and they are less than one, it is extremely high sodium.

    I also would say that changing this would be a bad thing. Sodium and salt are not the same. Salt is not pure sodium, thankfully, and the vast majority of foods will give sodium information in mg not g.

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