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>A daily sodium intake in a relatively wide range around the recommended daily intake (which is of about 4 to 6 grams of salt per day) Hold the phone....4000 t
by vlan0 4y ago
>A daily sodium intake in a relatively wide range around the recommended daily intake (which is of about 4 to 6 grams of salt per day)
Hold the phone....4000 to 6000mg? I've never seen anything that high as a recommendation. Maybe I'm an outlier, but if I get close to 4000mg I'll feel bloated the next day and my BP will be elevated.
- Jabbles 4y agoNHS gives an upper limit of 6g of salt per day: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/salt-nutrition/#:~:text=Adults%20should%20eat%20no%20more%20than%206g%20of%20salt%20a%20day https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/salt-nutrit...
- vlan0 4y agoThanks! That's what I was missing; salt!=sodium. 2.4g of sodium looks better.
- adrian_b 4y agoYes. I have expressed the daily intake as salt, not as sodium, because this is the more useful quantity to know, as this is what you can measure when cooking. When you eat home-made food, there is some small quantity of sodium in meat and other animal-based food, but most of the sodium comes from the salt you add to food, which you should measure. The sodium recommended intake is useful only when reading the labels of industrially-processed food, to see how much you could eat daily. However, if such food makes the bulk of what you eat, then there is not much point in reading the labels, as it is unlikely that you can achieve the recommended intake.