Add alternatives for sodium / salt input
Judging by a lot of the data in the app, many people don't understand the difference between sodium and salt (either they thing 1g Salt = 1g Sodium, or they don't understand the difference between mg and g). Moreover in europe it's common to list Salt content (in g) in food labels rather than Sodium content.
Lifesum could help by having a Salt (g) and Sodium (mg) field and depedning on which is entered last, updating the other field automatically (factor of 1g salt = 400mg sodium)
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Chris
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Yes, tracking of Sodium salt is currently impossible unless you manually fix every single food you log. In addition to people entering salt as Sodium, they also enter grams as milligrams, i.e. 1.2g of salt is entered as 1.2mg of sodium, instead of 480mg.
I’d appreciate if you could at least include a check on the sodium value so that if the user enters a value of, say, less than 5mg per / 100g, the user is alerted to the fact that the unit is mg, not g.
Similarly, as long as there is no option to enter salt, the difference between Salt and Sodium could be pointed out somewhere on the form. - But then again, its probably easier to just af a field for salt which automatically updates Sodium.
BTW: there are multiple versions of this idea here on uservoice so they should probably be merged (Just search for salt)
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Matthew Brown
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Maybe add a DASH diet category too.
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Chrissie
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This really needs to be implemented. I spend so much time correcting the incorrect sodium/salt from other users and it's important information.
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Anonymous
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I agree. I find myself correcting the user inputted data for sodium on nearly everything.
@gandalfsaxe: 1mg sodium = roughly 2.5 mg salt.
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gandalfsaxe commented
Honest question: how are they connected if at all?
I’m aware of the chemical difference but I don’t know if there is some nutrition jargon or what the convention is.
I agree it would be useful to have both metrics.