🧂Sodium

Sodium is an essential nutrient and a mineral. It is the same as elemental, metallic sodium.

Most of our sodium, chloride, and iodide comes from table salt (sodium chloride) as table salt is often iodized. Sodium is almost always consumed in higher amounts than necessary due to our table salt consumption, so deficiency is not typically a dietary concern. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sodium-per-day