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Foods Lowest in Sodium

Managing dietary sodium is important for many health-conscious individuals. The Daily Value for sodium is capped at 2,300 mg per day according to FDA guidelines. Below are food items ranked by sodium content per 100 grams based on official USDA FoodData Central records.

Standardization Basis: All values are calculated per 100 grams of food derived from official USDA FoodData Central records.
Top USDA Food Items Ranked by Foods Lowest in Sodium (per 100g)
Rank Food Item Foods Lowest in Sodium (mg) % Daily Value Calories (kcal)
1 Pectin, liquid 0 mg 0% 11 kcal
2 Oil, flaxseed, cold pressed 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
3 Fruit syrup 0 mg 0% 341 kcal
4 Syrup, fruit flavored 0 mg 0% 261 kcal
5 Rose-apples, raw 0 mg 0% 25 kcal
6 Fiddlehead ferns, frozen, unprepared 0 mg 0% 34 kcal
7 Longans, raw 0 mg 0% 60 kcal
8 Rice flour, white, unenriched 0 mg 0% 366 kcal
9 Oil, corn and canola 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
10 Candies, hard, dietetic or low calorie (sorbitol) 0 mg 0% 394 kcal
11 Nectarines, raw 0 mg 0% 44 kcal
12 Plums, raw 0 mg 0% 46 kcal
13 Nuts, acorns, raw 0 mg 0% 387 kcal
14 Nuts, pecans 0 mg 0% 691 kcal
15 Nuts, acorns, dried 0 mg 0% 509 kcal
16 Nuts, acorn flour, full fat 0 mg 0% 501 kcal
17 Nuts, hazelnuts or filberts 0 mg 0% 628 kcal
18 Nuts, hazelnuts or filberts, blanched 0 mg 0% 629 kcal
19 Sweetener, herbal extract powder from Stevia leaf 0 mg 0% 0 kcal
20 Oil, rice bran 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
21 Oil, wheat germ 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
22 Oil, palm 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
23 Oil, sesame, salad or cooking 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
24 Oil, sunflower, linoleic (less than 60%) 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
25 Oil, cottonseed, salad or cooking 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
26 Oil, grapeseed 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
27 Oil, walnut 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
28 Oil, almond 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
29 Oil, apricot kernel 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
30 Butter, Clarified butter (ghee) 0 mg 0% 900 kcal
31 Fat, beef tallow 0 mg 0% 902 kcal
32 Lard 0 mg 0% 902 kcal
33 Oil, peanut, salad or cooking 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
34 Oil, soybean, salad or cooking 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
35 Oil, coconut 0 mg 0% 892 kcal
36 Oil, cocoa butter 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
37 Vegetable oil, palm kernel 0 mg 0% 862 kcal
38 Oil, poppyseed 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
39 Oil, tomatoseed 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
40 Oil, teaseed 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
41 Oil, soybean lecithin 0 mg 0% 763 kcal
42 Oil, hazelnut 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
43 Oil, babassu 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
44 Oil, sheanut 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
45 Apples, raw, without skin 0 mg 0% 48 kcal
46 Cherries, sweet, raw 0 mg 0% 63 kcal
47 Shortening bread, soybean (hydrogenated) and cottonseed 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
48 Shortening cake mix, soybean (hydrogenated) and cottonseed (hydrogenated) 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
49 Shortening frying (heavy duty), palm (hydrogenated) 0 mg 0% 884 kcal
50 Shortening household soybean (hydrogenated) and palm 0 mg 0% 884 kcal

Data Provenance & Methodology

Nutrient values displayed above are sourced directly from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) FoodData Central foundation dataset. Rankings evaluate nutrient density on a standardized 100-gram mass basis. Unknown or missing values are treated as missing data rather than zero. For details on scaling, rounding, and Daily Value calculations, visit our Data Methodology page.

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