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Sodium & salt
The label says sodium. You eat salt. They are not the same number.

Salt is sodium chloride — about 40% sodium by weight. Labels list sodium in milligrams; to get the salt you'd recognise in a spoon, multiply by 2.5. High sodium intake is the single most-documented dietary factor in high blood pressure.

What the institutions say
WHO
Under 2,000 mg sodium/day (5 g salt — one level teaspoon)
ICMR-NIN
Recommends restricting salt; surveys put actual Indian intake near 8–11 g/day, roughly double the WHO ceiling
How it appears on the label

1,000 mg sodium on the label = 2.5 g of salt eaten.

Sodium arrives from more than salt: MSG (E621), baking soda (E500), sodium benzoate (E211) and disodium phosphate all contribute, and each hides under its own name in the ingredient list.

Instant noodles typically put most of their sodium in the tastemaker sachet — the noodle cake alone reads deceptively low if a label splits them.

Namkeen and bhujia labels often state a 30 g serving; a shared 200 g pack rarely survives an evening.

In numbers you can picture
One packet of instant noodles with its tastemaker ≈ 1,500–1,800 mg sodium — most of a day's ceiling in one bowl
100 g of salted chips ≈ 500–900 mg
Two slices of packaged bread ≈ 300–400 mg — sodium hides in foods that don't taste salty
What Falose does with it

Sodium per 100 g/ml is a weighted input to the negative load, on the same fixed per-100 basis as everything else.

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