sodium levels

[chiguy1947]

Not sure why but the sodium levels seem to be way off when logging food. For example, 2 cups of broccoli showed sodium as 839mg which is ridiculous. Does anyone know why this would be so?

[Malpeg]

Some foods are naturally higher in sodium. Broccoli has some sodium but not near that much. I've noticed that packages of frozen broccoli seem to be high in sodium.

[TandemWalker]

I would not worry about the sodium content in real foods. Just stay away from manufactured foods with a high sodium content, and you'll be doing just fine, IMHO.

[LZeeW]

@chiguy1947  Regarding the calorie database, it has mistakes in it. 

One of the things you can do is double click on any entry and it will take you to the nutrition page for that item.  When you do that to generic "broccoli", you get all kinds of incorrect information.  Not just incorrect sodium, but also incorrect fat.  It looks like this entry is a mish-mash of prepared broccoli side dishes.  For sure, it needs to be corrected.

This will help you in the meantime -- try a more specific listing for the item.  The nutrition info for Broccoli Florets (Dole) and Broccoli, Fresh, (Wegmans) have the correct information for fresh broccoli, florets and stalk.  It doesn't matter that you aren't using these brands.  The information comes from known databases.

Also, whenever I have trouble with an entry on the What did you eat? log, I look at the Calories in Foods and Search Foods at the bottom of the page under the Explore heading.  I find a lot of foods that don't seem to come up when I type them in the "what did you eat?" box.  I don't know why this happens, but it does.

I hope this helps you.

[Eno]

I eat a basic salt free diet and yet the sodium levels logged are high.  

[wizardprangz]

i went to manually add tesco finest sausage rolls to my food list as it didn't show on list. i used the nutirtional info given on the packet however the form only gives option to add sodium not salt and the label gives grams salt only. should i put the salt value from the pack as grams of sodium? i wasn't sure if fitbit was only coutning sodium elemtn not salt element of foods or if it called salt sodum. in uk we normally have both shown

[betpchem]

In America, "sodium" usually means "salt". Which bothers me greatly, because I'm a chemistry teacher. I know salt is not sodium, but sodium chloride. The element sodium is very different. 

[gogo1]

The sodium content is very wrong. Very annyoing.  I have re-added all of my favorite foods and meals with the correct amounts of sodium.

[gogo1]

Re-add your foods with the correct amounts of sodium.  My Fitness Pal has the correct amount of sodium listed in their food log.