Why is there not as much salt in salt than there should be?

Question

I was packing a bag of fine sea salt today, and noticed that on the Nutritional Information that there was 38.7g of salt per 100g. How?

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Answer 1

Did it say 38.7g of salt or 38.7g of *sodium*? After all, table salt is typically sodium *chloride*, so for every .39 grams of sodium there is .61 grams of chlorine.

So since salt is made of both sodium and chlorine, there’s no way it can be 100% sodium. 100% sodium would be a soft, gray metal.