Contribution of major food companies and their products to household dietary sodium purchases in Australia

Table 1 Sodium acquired from Australian households packaged food and beverage purchases

Category	Weight of products purchased (g/d per capita) Mean^a	Sodium (mg/d per capita)		Contribution to total weight of sodium purchases (%)
Category	Weight of products purchased (g/d per capita) Mean^a	Mean¹	Median (25th to 75th percentiles)	Contribution to total weight of sodium purchases (%)
Foods	354	1059	960 (656–1334)	74
Beverages	280	73	56 (29–97)	5
Table salt	1	311	79 (0–380)	21
Total	636	1443	1253 (847–1793)	100

^aStandard error (SE) for weight of products purchased (g/d per capita) and sodium (mg/d per capita) not displayed as SE ≤0.3 for each mean value

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