(April 29, 2022 at 11:13 am)Angrboda Wrote:(April 29, 2022 at 10:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, 10g of tuna has 5mg of sodium, while 10g of table salt has 3800mg. Limiting the amount of table salt seems pretty important.
Boru
How many people do you know limit their tuna portions to 10g? A serving of lasagna contains 1500 mg of sodium. 10g of table salt is two teaspoons which is more than I use in 6-8 quarts of chili. Which is about 3-4 servings, so roughly 900-1100 mg per serving. You're going to add a lot less than 10g to most food. The first recipe for lasagna that I find calls for 6 grams of salt, and that's for two pounds of lasagna.
Well, scale it, obviously. 200g of tuna has 100mg of sodium. 1/4 teaspoon of salt (not an unreasonable amount for nearly a half pound of tuna) has almost 600mg.
I don’t disagree that it’s important to pay attention to the amount of sodium in the underlying food, but when a largish pinch of salt can more than quintuple the amount of sodium in a dish, it’s a valid consideration.
Boru
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