How Much Sodium Is in a Steak Shawarma?

Mezeh Nutrition Calculator: The Short Answer

The Highest-Sodium Mezeh Items, Ranked

From the Mezeh calculator. A sensible single-meal sodium target is roughly 700–900mg — about a third of the day — which is why items above 1,500mg deserve a deliberate decision rather than a default.

Ordering Low-Sodium at Mezeh

Anchor on the low end: the Unsweetened Iced Tea has just 10mg of sodium, which proves a low-sodium build exists on this menu. Around that anchor, the rules are simple — one salty extra at most, sauces on the side, and fresh sides over pickled or processed ones.

The calculator makes this manageable because its sodium bar moves as you build: add items one at a time and watch which single addition does the damage. Swapping that one component, rather than abandoning the meal, is usually enough to bring a 1,800mg order back under 900mg.

• Lowest sodium: Unsweetened Iced Tea — 10mg
• Highest sodium: Steak Shawarma (protein portion) — 1010mg
• Daily guideline: 2,300mg (FDA); many clinicians aim nearer 1,500mg

The Lowest-Sodium Mezeh Items

A low-sodium order is built, not found. These are the lowest-sodium items in the Mezeh calculator — combine two or three and the meal stays in the range a heart-conscious day can absorb.

What One Steak Shawarma Does to Your Day

Set against the standard 2,000-calorie reference day, one Steak Shawarma (protein portion) uses 12% of the day's calories, 42% of the protein target, 2% of the carb allowance and 18% of the fat budget. Its 1010mg of sodium is 44% of the 2,300mg daily guideline — the figure that most often surprises people, because sodium concentrates in restaurant food far faster than calories do.

None of those percentages is a verdict on its own. A Steak Shawarma at 12% of the day's calories can be a sensible meal anchor; the same item plus a large side and a sweetened drink can quietly pass 60% of the day before dinner. The calculator's daily-value bars exist for exactly this check: build the whole order, not just the headline item, and read the day you are actually committing to.

• Steak Shawarma (protein portion): 230 cal · 21g protein · 5g carbs · 14g fat
• Sodium: 1010mg (44% of the daily guideline)
• Sugar: 1g of the 50g daily value · Fibre: 1g of 28g

The Full Nutrition Profile of the Steak Shawarma

Here is the complete panel for the Steak Shawarma (protein portion), exactly as the Mezeh calculator carries it, with each nutrient also expressed as a percentage of its daily value on a 2,000-calorie reference diet. Read down the percentage column rather than the grams: it is the fastest way to see which nutrient this item is really about. For the Steak Shawarma, the standout is sodium, at 44% of a full day in a single item.

Two cautions belong with any single-item panel. First, published values describe the standard build — your portion, your sauce quantity and your size can move every line. Second, percentages are shares of a whole day, not grades: an item at 45% of the day's sodium is a problem only in the context of what else the day holds, which is why the calculator totals the full order rather than judging items one at a time.

Where This Answer Sits on the Whole Mezeh Menu

Zoom out and the Mezeh menu tracked here spans 16 items across 7 categories, from the Unsweetened Iced Tea at 0 calories to the Chicken Shawarma Bowl Base at 520 — a 520-fold spread inside one restaurant. The average item is about 202 calories, 0 items pass 700 calories, and 15 of 16 sit under 500. Any single number quoted from this menu means little until it is placed inside that spread.

That spread is also the opportunity. A menu this wide almost always contains a build for the goal you actually have — the protein target, the sodium ceiling, the 500-calorie lunch — provided the order is assembled deliberately rather than inherited from habit. The rankings in this article are the map; the calculator is where you test the route before you travel it.

• Menu range: 0 cal (Unsweetened Iced Tea) to 520 cal (Chicken Shawarma Bowl Base)
• 13 items under 300 calories · 15 under 500 · average 202
• Most protein-dense: Chicken Kabob (protein portion) at 9.5g protein per 100 cal

The One Swap That Changes the Answer

If the Steak Shawarma (protein portion) is your usual order and the numbers above are more than you wanted, the highest-value single change on this menu is the Chicken Kabob (protein portion): 200 calories against 230 (30 fewer), 19g of protein against 21g, and 240mg of sodium against 1010mg (770mg less salt). One swap, repeated weekly, is worth more than a month of good intentions.

Not every swap has to be a downgrade in enjoyment: the pattern that works at Mezeh is swapping the component, not the meal — the same style of order rebuilt around a lighter anchor, with the sauce, cheese or side demoted from default to deliberate. Price both versions in the calculator once and the better default usually picks itself.

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