Sodium
sodium content
What it is
Sodium is a mineral naturally present in many foods and also introduced through salt and other sodium-containing ingredients.
Why BOTIA flags it
Sodium and salt are closely related but they are not the same declared field. BOTIA preserves what the label actually states and keeps that value separate from the regulatory rules, conversions and evidence used to interpret it.
BOTIA CAN
- Read the sodium value declared on the nutrition label and preserve its unit and basis.
- Keep a declared sodium value separate from a declared salt value.
- Connect the declared value with the applicable regulatory information and documented evidence.
BOTIA CANNOT
- Determine how much of the sodium comes from salt and how much comes from other sodium-containing ingredients.
- Treat sodium and salt as interchangeable without applying and identifying the appropriate conversion.
- Determine an individual's sodium requirement from the nutrition label.
- Treat an undeclared sodium value as zero.