Question about sodium content in baby foods?

Question

I have a question about sodium content in commerical baby food. I bought three different brands of sweet potatoes.
Earth's Best organic had 50 mg of sodium
Gerber had 15 mg of sodium
Del Monte had 0 mg of sodium.
i know adults should watch their sodium content, but what about babies? It seems like a big difference between the brands. How much sodium does a 6month old need?
Any info you have would be helpful.

Answer 1

I would say the organic is the best. I would be much more worried about what pesticides were used while growing the food rather than the sodium in it.
Babies need some sodium in their diet it's an important mineral.

"Children one to eighteen years of age need a minimum of 225 to 500 milligrams of sodium a day."

Answer 2

All of those have a very small amount of sodium- not enough to worry about. The time to start watching sodium content is when you start feeding canned and processed foods- if you ever do. A serving of canned soup has anywhere from 800- 1200 mg of sodium in a serving! Hotdogs are filled with it. Believe it or not, the foods that don't even taste salty are the ones that have a super high sodium content- things like salted pretzels and chips/ crackers, etc. aren't nearly so bad! Strange... just keep reading labels- and if 1 serving has under 200 mg, it's pretty low.