Question

As a dietitian, your patient is on a low sodium diet (less than 1,100 mg of sodium per meal). She has a breakfast of orange juice, 2 eggs, 2 slices of toast with butter on each, and coffee. How much sodium did the patient have for breakfast?

Answer 1

You need a table with the content of sodium per serving.

This is the table:

butter 1 pat 41mg

coffe 250 ml 0

eggs 1 serving 60mg

toast 1 slice 170mg

orange
juice 250 ml 4 mg

With that table you can calculate the content of sodium in the breakfast, this way:


orange juice: 1 * 41 mg = 4 mg
2 eggs: 2*60mg = 120 mg
2 slices of toast with butter on each: 2 * ( 170mg+41mg) = 422mg
and coffee: 1 *0 = 0

The total sodium ingested is: 4 mg + 120 mg + 422 mg = 546 mg

Answer: 546 mg