• Question: How much salt is in the human body?

    Asked by issiphee1 to Gioia, Iain, Jo, Leo, Mariam on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Iain Moal

      Iain Moal answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      about 250g, so thats about a quater of a bag of sugars worth.

    • Photo: Joanna Watson

      Joanna Watson answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Glad you answered that one Iain – I didn’t have a clue.

    • Photo: Mariam Orme

      Mariam Orme answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I did a very rough calculation and came to a figure of about 500g for someone my size (I weigh about 60kg).
      Then I looked on the internet, and found this calculation:
      http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar2001/985293756.Me.r.html
      They conclude that for a 50kg person, there would be 123.64g of sodium chloride in the body.
      I’m more inclined to trust the internet answer than my own!

    • Photo: Leo Garcia

      Leo Garcia answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      See above!

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