Someone try and help me understand how in a serving there is no sodium but in the whole bottle there are 10 mg sodium? Because it doesn't make sense to me....if there are 3 servings of 12 oz and each serving has 0 mg sodium...where does the 10 mg appear?

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I’m pretty sure there are like minimum numbers that companies don’t have to put if the number is low. So like 3.33 mg of sodium would be so low that it doesn’t necessarily have to be disclosed

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Because there’s probably a minimum below which they do not need to report a number and can report it as zero. I don’t know what that minimum is (and it will almost certainly vary by the nutrient in question)  but let’s say it’s 4. So below 4mg the manufacturer doesn’t have to report the actual number, they can just report 0mg. But maybe there is actually 3.3 mg of sodium in a single serving. The manufacturer will report 0mg. But in an entire bottle which might be 3 single servings there are 3.3mg x 3 = 9.9mg of sodium. Now, because it’s above the reporting minimum of 4mg the manufacturer has to report that there are 10mg of sodium. Either way as you can see from the percentages the total amount of sodium in the bottle represents 0% of your daily requirement which is a super low amount. The current RDA of sodium is 2300mg so 10mg is a negligible amount. You would have to drink 230 bottles of that to get your total daily amount of sodium.

Someone try and help me understand how in a serving there is no sodium but in the whole bottle there are 10 mg sodium? Because it doesn't make sense to me....if there are 3 servings of 12 oz and each serving has 0 mg sodium...where does the 10 mg appear?

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