Sodium to Salt Calculator

About this calculator

This calculator converts a sodium amount into its salt (sodium chloride) equivalent using the standard factor salt = sodium × 2.5 (since salt is only about 40% sodium by weight), and compares the result against common daily limits like the WHO's 2,000 mg sodium (5g salt) recommendation.

It's used by people managing blood pressure or on a doctor-recommended low-sodium diet who need to translate a nutrition label's "sodium" figure into the "salt" terms more commonly used in everyday cooking and some countries' food labeling, and by home cooks trying to keep a recipe within a daily sodium budget. Because packaged food labels sometimes list sodium and sometimes list salt depending on the country, the calculator removes the guesswork of converting between the two.