Yes, that’s why we removed it back in 2016, so easy to add salt to your diet but difficult to remove it. Have you tried Hot & Savoury? The sodium isn’t high, but it’s more suited to ading additional salt and then you don’t have to have some unhealthy crisps (if you wanted to avoid them, obviously if you want to have crisps then you eat those crisps!)
Very interesting topic here! I was also wondering about the sodium levels in Huel because of getting nauseous during my workout.
Looking at the nutritional profiles on the website I’ve seen some differences in sodium amounts between different flavours. For example: the vanilla 3.0 contains 1420mg/2000kcal, berry 1640mg/2000kcal, chocolate 1850mg/2000kcal, banana 1130mg/2000kcal, salted caramel 2180mg/2000kcal and so on.
Also found that on the EU part of the site (since I’m located in the EU) has for vanilla 3.6gr/2000kcal, berry 3.6gr/2000kcal, chocolate 4.1gr/2000kcal, banana 3.6gr/2000kcal, salted caramel 4.9g/2000kcal
So it does seem to be worth investigating how much salt intake there is in your daily Huel diet!
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@Robertvh - I noticed the same issue. I wonder why there is so many difference of salt quantity between EU and US. It’s a deal breaker to me as the official french Superior Security Limit of salt by day is 2300mg (cf. ANSES) … On the EU products you find flavour as high as 4600 mg for 500G … The quantity in US product is ideal. It’s way better to have less salt than too much cause you can easily find complement if you practice a lot of sport (look for electrolyte), in addition you can just add a salt pinch to the powder. But with too much salt, what can you do ?
The adviced quantity of sodium by day is 2000mg for UE (cf. EFSA) or 1500mg for France (cf. ANSES).
Notice than the Huel Bars are ok on sodium and have a nice dietetic profile. Hot food is way higher on salt making it potentially dangerous on a full diet purpose IMHO.
In the above post, you said there is a cf. ANSES limit of 2300mg for salt but a target of 1500mg for sodium. This is impossible, because 1500mg of sodium is ~3750mg of salt.
What is more likely is the both the 1500mg target and the 2300mg limit apply to sodium, which works out to a target of ~3.75g and a limit of ~5.75g, which Huel does fall below.
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Sorry Benjamin, I don’t quite understand where you’re coming from here.
As @IcyElemental has pointed out I think you’ve got your salt and sodium targets mixed up. 2300mg of sodium is a pretty standard recommendation, I’ve not seen such a limit for salt.
I’m not sure where you’ve seen this recommendation (maybe it’s in French and I can’t find it through searching) but it looks like the ANSES set a recommendation of 8g of salt a day (3200mg sodium) for men and 6.5g salt (2600mg sodium) for women.
Indeed you are both right, the recommandation i took for source is about sodium and not salt ! You made me much clearer about it cause i was mistaking, thinking it was the same thing. This leads me to wonder why there is no sodium quantity indicated in the minerals details ? Salt seems to contains iode and potassium in addition to sodium and i can find iode and potassium quantity. Is that means i needs to add the iode and potassium from salt to get the exact quantity of them ? I’m conscious this is a bit out of the topic, but i find it very interessant to know for the end customer.
About the source documentation i used to refere on the 2300mg max quantity, it’s here : Les références nutritionnelles en vitamines et minéraux | Anses - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail . The document set the security limit (LSS) to 2300mg sodium for an adult male. This seems to mean a limit of 5.75g of salt (40% sodium by salt unit). The article has been updated the 22 April 2021. I’d be glad to read your ANSES resources Dan, would you mind to share it, please ?
Thank you both for the information, I now have to boost up my salt ratio ! Btw i took a shot with the Huel powder as it is no more blocking issue 
have a good day !
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Good question! It varies by region but generally in the UK/EU the salt recommendation is more familiar to consumers and so that is used. In the US it’s sodium so if you want to know the exact amount of sodium of a particular product just switch the flag in the top right hand corner of the site to the US. It won’t be that different from the converted salt amount and I find this calculator helpful for that.
This is the article I found but I would trust the link you have provided more.
Let me know if you need anything else 
Salt → Sodium
X g Salt / 2.5 * 1000 = Y mg Sodium
Sodium → Salt
Y mg Sodium * 2.5 / 1000 = X g Salt
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