Sodium in fruit bar...?!
Question: I purchased a fruit bar that contains 20 mg(1%) of sodium.is it safe to take one bar daily???
what is the dosage of sodium recommended daily?
Answers: I purchased a fruit bar that contains 20 mg(1%) of sodium.is it safe to take one bar daily???
what is the dosage of sodium recommended daily?
The percentage listed (1%) refers to the percentage of total daily value contained in the product. Your fruit bar contains 1% of the recommended daily level of sodium. The exact amount you should consume varys a little from person to person but wrappers are standardized against a 2000 calorie diet and are fine for most people.
Twenty miligrams of sodium is fairly low (a can of soda contains about 35mg) so you should be fine to eat one each day--assuming the product is otherwise nutritious and doesn't contain high levels of fat, calories, etc.
Rather than just looking at the nutrition facts, look at the ingredients. you should stay away from sodium nitrite (or nitrate) sulfur dioxide, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, red 40 and other "lake" colors. These things are all really bad for you and you shouldn't eat them. If it is just a regular salt, then its fine! Your body knows how to digest REAL ingredients. When you start eating "low fat" or "low cal" foods from a package that contain all of these bad ingredients you end up much more unhealthy. I'll post some links below!!
20mg of sodium is VERY low amt. of sodium & it's safe for you to have several/day if you're only using sodium as your criteria.
If 20 mg is 1% then 2000 would be 100%. However, I think that's kind of high. It depends if you need to be on a low sodium diet.