A teaspoon of table salt contains about 2,300 mg of sodium. A teaspoon of soy sauce has about 300 and a teaspoon of MSG has about 500. My regular Kikkoman soy sauce, not low sodium, has 320 mg of ...

Low-sodium foods are considered 140mg or less ... so check the serving size when reading the label. For example, soy sauce has 878mg per tablespoon, but it's easy to use more than one tablespoon.

Soy sauce is also produced in different styles, including light, dark, sweet and low-sodium. Keep in mind that we're mainly focusing on Japanese soy sauce in this post, but there are also Chinese, ...