How much sodium in table salt?

“It’s very important for people to be aware that sea salt often has as much sodium as table salt,” said Rachel K. Johnson, Ph.D., R.D., an American Heart Association spokeswoman and the Bickford Professor of Nutrition at the University of Vermont. read more

Table salt is 40 percent sodium, and it usually comes from underground mines. Sea salt has the same sodium content as table salt, but it is made by evaporating ocean water. Table salt undergoes more processing than sea salt; factories remove minerals, add anti-clumping agents and enrich the salt with iodine. read more