Have the option to choose salt OR sodium when imputing foods
Only having the option to input sodium often seems to results in messed up entries with salt and sodium confused.
This means you either have to re-enter the whole item or attempt to change the sodium info which often seems to fail.
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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)