Ohhh, when looking at ingredients on packaged food sodium and salt are not the same — Beyond Salt: The Secret Reason Your Blood Pressure Stays High Despite Your Diet
in the UK, the packet … gives you the amount of salt in grams, and the general guidance for adults is around 6 g a day. But in the US, the label gives you the sodium in milligrams instead. And the guidance there is roughly 2,300 mg a day.
… they are more or less the same because salt is only about 40% sodium by weight. If you ever want to convert between them take the sodium figure and multiply it by 2 and a half and that gives you the amount of salt.