Recipes in my cookbooks and blogs are tested using diamond crystal kosher salt. If you are using other brands of salt, you will need to adjust the amounts called for in each recipe.
Below is a list of sodium content of salts available at supermarkets. Sodium contents of store brand salts vary. Do read the Nutrition Facts label on the container.
To learn more about salts click on link.
| NAME | SODIUM | SODIUM |
| ¼ teaspoon | 1 teaspoon | |
| Diamond Crystal: | ||
| • Kosher | 280 mg | 1120 mg |
| • Regular, iodized | 430 mg | 1720 mg |
| • Salt sense | 390 mg | 1560 mg |
| Morton: | ||
| • Kosher | 480 mg | 1920 mg |
| • Regular, iodized | 590 mg | 2360 mg |
| • Lite | 290 mg | 1160 mg |
| • Salt sense | 390 mg | 1560 mg |
| Sea Salt | 580 mg | 2320 mg |
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I’m excited to see this blog. I soooo love cooking and was even once the pasta cook in a restaurant.
Wendy, do share your pasta cooking experiences.
I am so glad to know that someone else uses the Diamond Crystal Kosher salt. Everyone tries to tell me sea salt has less sodium. Also Diamond Crystal is the only Kosher salt I have found with that low a sodium. I am for ever pulling the box from my cupboard and showing non believers
I’m so glad to see this information on salt. I never realized that different salts have different sodium content. I’m going to use Diamond Crystal kosher from now on.
Thanks, Norma!!!
You are welcome, Connie.
Hi Norma,
Wow, super informative post, you’re right: salts are not created equal! It’s not something I ever thought about. I think about kosher vs. sea salt for example, but not the actual sodium content.
It was nice running into you today at Adams. Have a wonderful holiday.
Hello Sophie,
Thanks. Reading labels is a good habit to get into. I enjoyed our brief visit today. A wonderful holiday to you and your family too.
You know, I never thought to check the sodium content of salt. I mean salt is salt, right? wow this really shows up the difference!
Hello Mary,
It is a good habit to read the Nutrition Facts label, you will be surprised to find out what is in some of the food we purchase.
So you should eat sea salt instead of table salt? Is table salt really that bad? I would purchase sea salt but its so expensive compared to Morton’s.
Hello Seeds and Shovels,
The salt table is for comparing the sodium content of different salts. My recipes are tested using Diamond Crystal kosher salt the salt I use myself.
Great to know about the differences in salt. I will be switching to Kosher salt tomorrow! Thanks Norma. Nice to have attended your cooking demo at Adams tonight! Phyllis
Hello Phyllis,
Was glad to see you last night. As I emphasized at the demo, we have to read the nutrtional label on food packages.
I had no idea there were such differences in salt! I knew that “sea salt is better for you than table salt”…or so I thought…
I just recently bought a box of the Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt for a new recipe I’m trying and I love it!
Hello Glutenfreezen,
The things we learn when we read and compare the Nutrition Facts label on food containers.
Am bookmarking this page for future reference -great post, thanks!
anne
Hello Anne,
You are so welcome glad you find the info useful.
Just wandering around and I saw this page; I usually use sea salt but I am intrigued by the lower sodium in Kosher. Does it mean that you use more salt for the flavour or is the flavour still the same? I had heard that sea salt contains less sodium than table salt, I’ll have to google my brand.
Hello Eva,
If you check the sodium content of different sea salts you will notice there are differences. Notice also diamond crystal kosher salt has a lower sodium content than morton kosher salt.
Ummm… sorry but this post is, quite frankly, just plain wrong! You’ve used a VOLUME measurement for the various salt comparisons, and depending on crystal size, shape and density you will get a vastly different WEIGHT of salt. So… you’re right in one sense… a teaspoon of one salt may very well have more or less sodium than a teaspoon of another… but only because you’re comparing by volume! As long as we’re talking about common sodium chloride, and ignoring any other trace mineral elements that might occur in sea salts or other specialty salts… the sodium content is the when you compare with a proper weight measurement!! For more (accurate) information, see here: http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/salt.html
Hello JustAGuy,
Thanks for visiting and taking the time to comment. Yes, I chose to use VOLUME measurements as that is what is on the Nutrition Facts label of the products. Thanks for the link.
Since Diamond Crystal weighs almost half the weight of Morton, you need to use twice as much.
JustAGuy is absolutely right. You can’t compare volume. For Diamond Crystal, The shape of the crystal means that in each tablespoon or pinch there was more space between the grains of salt — hence, less salt. For Example, to make a brine you use 4 quarts water, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup Diamond Crystal kosher salt or 1/2 cup Morton’s kosher salt.
This is a good article about salt….
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/warning-measure-your-salt/?_r=1
Hello Lailabakes,
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to leave a comment. As I mentioned in my reply to JustAGuy I chose to use volume measurements as that is what is on the Nutrition Facts label on the products. Thanks also for the link I will add it and others that I have to my post.
Great information. The salt in soy sauce can vary a lot as well. Does more sodium means saltier?
Hello EasyAsianCooking,
Welcome and thanks for stopping by and for taking the time to leave a comment. Yes, more sodium means saltier.
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JustAGuy is absolutely right. Diamond Crystal weighs almost half of Morton kosher salt, hence you would need to use almost double the amount of salt which means a lot more Sodium.
Diamond Crystal is far less dense it is easily crushed between the fingers because of the unusual shape and fragility of the crystals. The shape meant that there was more space between grains of salt, hence, less salt. That is why VOLUME should not be used for comparison. You have to compare apples with apples….. Let’s say compare amount of sodium in 10 grams of each salt…
For example, to prepare a simple brine, say for 4 quarts of water, you need 1 cup sugar and 1 cup kosher salt if using Diamond Crystal OR ½ cup kosher salt if using Morton.
Hello Lailabakes,
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to leave a comment. As I mentioned in my reply to JustAGuy I chose to use volume measurements as that is what is on the Nutrition Facts label on the products. Thanks also for the link I will add it and others that I have to my post.
Can i use kosher salt in my vegetable garden to kill slugs
Hello Kim,
Salt may damage your plants and harm the quality of your soil. I have heard of gardeners using crushed eggshells and coffee grounds, the latter you could get from Starbucks or other coffee shops.