Dietary Chloride

Dietary Chloride is a cumulative mass quantity for the chloride amount recorded as consumed. Amounts on this page are expressed in mg. One sample can represent a food portion, a supplement entry or a source-generated daily total; it is not necessarily a whole day. Apple defines this quantity.

No. Table salt contains sodium and chloride, but its total mass differs from the mass of either component. Chloride also occurs in other salts. The HealthKit chloride quantity is the chloride amount consumed, not sodium intake and not a blood chloride concentration. MedlinePlus describes chloride in the diet.

Food databases and apps do not necessarily supply every nutrient. A sodium value does not guarantee a chloride value, and different sodium-containing ingredients do not all have the same chloride content. Confirm that the source supports chloride and that the chosen food record contains it. Do not fill an empty chloride field by treating sodium or salt mass as chloride.

The interval between entries reflects logging or synchronization, not nutrient absorption or a validated meal schedule. A midnight timestamp may be a daily summary, and multiple entries may have been added later. Review source, portion and duration before summing; importing the same meal from two apps can inflate a total. A day without entries is missing coverage, not zero intake.

Chloride has a role in fluid balance, but dietary entries do not measure sweat concentration, sweat volume or blood electrolyte balance. A logged chloride amount may describe a serving or a daily summary. Water, sodium and potassium logs provide additional recorded context only when their portions and reporting days align.

The researched 365-day reporting window contained no raw chloride samples and no stored chloride aggregates. Recorded value ranges, unusually large entries, source-specific daily totals and logging gaps could not be measured. No empirical graph or nutrient-status conclusion is presented. Related measurements cannot supply an intake relationship without chloride observations.

Check nutrient units and serving count: 1 g = 1,000 mg, while 1 microgram = 0.001 mg. Keep compatible contributions within a source and state how many days have credible logs. Apple allows apps to write selected nutrition types, so another nutrient being present does not establish complete chloride coverage. Review contributing Health sources after changing logging apps.

This HealthKit type is documented here but is not in the current PulsHealth sync catalog. The missing database rows therefore cannot establish whether Apple Health on the phone contains entries. Milligrams on this page are an explanatory display unit, not a promise of current sync support.