Sodium to salt converter
Convert the sodium on a food label to grams of salt, or salt to sodium, and see it against the daily limit.
That's about the same as the US daily limit (2,300 mg sodium). That is 116.9 % of the WHO daily limit of 5 g of salt.
What it means
How much salt is that?
Salt here means sodium chloride. A level teaspoon of table salt weighs about 6 g; flaky sea salt is lighter.
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Three things worth knowing
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Sodium × 2.5
400 mg of sodium is 1 g of salt. Going back, divide the salt by 2.5.
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Salt and salary
Salt was once valuable enough to tax and trade over deserts; the word salary is often linked to Roman soldiers’ salt money.
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Sodium is not salt
A label saying 1 g of sodium means 2.5 g of salt: half the WHO daily limit, not a fifth.
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Background
About salt and sodium
Salt is sodium chloride, and sodium is 39.3 % of it by weight. US labels list sodium in mg; European and UK labels list salt in grams, which is sodium × 2.5.
The WHO advises under 5 g of salt a day (2,000 mg sodium); US guidelines say under 2,300 mg sodium. Most people eat nearly twice that, mostly from bread, cheese and ready meals.