Eyeball Kitchen Measures

"<RJ>" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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I've gotta go on a "heart-healthy diet" ( bummer )

Trust me on this one, the alternative is not a lot of fun.

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One of the constraints is; "Not more than 3000mg salt/day"

Really, it says "salt" not "sodium"?

Cause 3000mg of salt a day is actually pretty low. 3000mg of
elemental sodium on the other hand is a little on the high
side but not dangerously so. I work on about 2400mg per day
and do it most days.

Quoted message said:

I've done the math;
3000mg = 3 grams
28 grams per oz....... ergo
1/9th of a teaspoon

One teaspoon of salt is 6g so 3000mg of salt is 1/2 teaspoon.
One teaspoon of salt has 2400mg of elemental sodium so 3000mg
of sodium is 1 1/4 teaspoons of salt.

Wayne Boatwright said:

Quoted message said:

I've done the math;
3000mg = 3 grams
28 grams per oz....... ergo
1/9th of a teaspoon

And I still can't picture it.
????
<rj>

Quoted message said:

You need to re-think this. You cannot easily convert weight in grams into
teaspoons, since different ingredients have different weight per volume.
You can, however, rather easily convert volume measures into weight
measures. One teaspoon of salt weights .2 ounce or 5.669905 grams. 1/9 of
a teaspoon of salt weighs only 0.629989 of a gram. A half-teaspoon weights
2.8349525 grams, so you would be allowed slightly more than 1/2 teaspoon of
salt. Still, even 1/2 teaspoon is precious little salt. That's about as
close as I can get.
HTH
Wayne

Thanks for the explanation.
Obviously, my math was based on a few bad assumptions.

( no wonder I'm having probs with Cold Fusion ) ;o)

<rj>