Chloride
ClToday
3-day window. Water-soluble and not stored, so a short run of days is the signal.
None of today's foods carried a value for Chloride. That is a gap in the data, not a reading of zero.
What it is
Arrives with sodium as salt, and makes stomach acid.
Reference intake
Your daily target, personalised to your age and sex.
- AI
- 2300 mgmale_19_50
- Upper limit
- 3600 mgapplies to total
Set alongside sodium's, since the two arrive together as salt. Reaching it from anything other than a very high-salt diet is unlikely.
Full write-up not finished
The reference intake above is real and cited — Chloride is assessed against it exactly like any other nutrient. What is missing is the written panel: what it does in detail, what deficiency and excess look like, absorption, interactions, and food sources ranked against what you eat.
Entries live in data/nutrients.json. Filling this one in changes no code.
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-08-11