Salt equivalent

Salt equivalent

Salt equivalent is usually quoted on food nutrition information tables on food labels, and is a different way of defining sodium intake, noting that salt is chemically sodium chloride.

To convert from sodium to the approximate salt equivalent, multiply sodium content by 2.5.

ources

* [http://www.nutrition.org.uk/home.asp?siteId=43&sectionId=836&parentSection=322&which=undefined British Nutrition Foundation article on salt]

Further reading

* Citation
title = Food and Health Manifesto
publisher = Food and Drink Federation
year = 2005
location = London
url = https://www.fdf.org.uk/showdoc/opendoc2.aspx?id=587
accessdate = 2007-10-12


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