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Salt... Doctors say salt is bad for me and I need to avoid foods that contain salt... Salt is a culprit that affects blood pressure mainly by making the body retain fluids. Oh sure. Nearly every food on this planet contains salt. The mineral salt, is also known as Sodium chloride. That is the chemical name for salt and it's listed as NaCL. (Na for sodium and CL for chlorine) I read that salt is essential for animal life, as it has something to do with electrolytes and the flow of neurons. I remember a school science laboratory test where we tried to make electricity flow through distilled water. It didn't. We added salt to the water and it became a conductor of electricity. I'm told potassium chloride is a healthy substitute for sodium chloride and that it actually displaces salt. I bought some supplements of potassium... if I could only remember to take them! A little research on salt: According to the World Health Organization, they recommend that adults should consume less than 2,000 mg of sodium per day. One teaspoon of salt is roughly 2,300 milligrams of sodium and we know lunch any fast food restaurant exceeds that. A bowl of soup at Olive Garden is probably three times the daily limit! Some of my research shows that a can of Coke has no salt in it but we all know Coke it's not very good for you. Drinking Coke because it's low in sodium does sound like a health contradiction... so stay away from sodium and coke. . |
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My weakness is pretzels. I usually scrape the salt off the surface but that take time. Unsalted pretzels have a completely different flavor because salt isn't in the dough when cooked. Trying to find low salt or no salt on the top is next to impossible.
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iman, it could be both. Certainly I've read the ingredients of sandwich bread and amazed to see how much salt is in the recipe. But I've used a knife to scrape the salt from a bowl of large pretzels and it's more than a teaspoon full. The bacon & potato soup at Olive Garden has to be the biggest offender. I once told the waitress to take it away and they should post sodium content warnings on the menu.
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