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Defining dietary salt and sodium - examples of sodium content (mg/100 g) of unprocessed and processed versions of the same food

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( McCance & Widdowson 2015 (xlsx) ).

Salt can be calculated by multiplying sodium by 2.5.

Food Item

Processed or unprocessed version

Sodium content (mg/100 g)
Beef Fillet steak, grilled lean 70
Corned beef, canned 860
Bran Wheat 3
Breakfast cereal, bran flakes 360
Chick-peas Dried, boiled in unsalted water 5
Canned, re-heated, drained 200
Potatoes Baked, flesh and skin 2
Chips, fine cut, from fast food outlets 193
Crisps, low fat 730
Peanuts Kernel only, plain, unsalted 2

Roasted and salted

 400
Peas Boiled in unsalted water Traces
Mushy, canned, re-heated 220
Onions Baked 4
Pickled, drained 450
Salmon Farmed, flesh only, grilled 49
Pink, canned in brine, drained 352
Salmon, smoked (hot-smoked) 848
Tomatoes Standard, raw 2
Juice 230
Ketchup 800