How much sodium is in one shake of a table salt shaker?

Answer 1

I used a consumer-grade scale that's accurate to 100mg and shook my shaker over it until it went up by 100mg. I repeated this about 4 times, and also did a few tests with larger amounts. They were all in close agreement that there are 8-10 shakes in 100mg, meaning that 1 shake is 10-12.5mg.Salt is 40% sodium by weight, so a shake contains 4-5mg of sodium. My salt shaker has 5 holes and was using fairly coarse pink salt. Yours may vary by quite a lot.

Alternate response: I was trying to find this out and couldn't, so I experimented. At a very rough estimate, it took 200 or so shakes to fill a teaspoon. Using that figure, a single shake would have ~12 mg of sodium.

Answer 2

It depends on what salt shakers you are talking about...some are made of plastic, but alot of salt shakers are made of glass.

Answer 3

it depends on hoe big the salt shaker is and where it is filled to.

Answer 4

Standard table salt is primarily sodium chloride.

Iodized salt also contains sodium iodide.

Answer 5

The answer depends on the size of the shaker!

Answer 6

Usually they are 4 or so inches tall.