Salt

[tp4tissue]

You guys ever eat so much salt in 1 meal, and think, oh god, I think I'm having heart palpitations..

new batch of pickled gai-vegetable just finished, ate about a fist full.

[fohat.digs]

Water + Potassium

[tp4tissue]

isn't potassium also usually in the form of salt ?

[PlayBox]

that's a lot of salt to eat

[fohat.digs]

potassium also usually in the form of salt

Table salt is sodium chloride. Sea salt is better but not the entire solution.

The body needs both sodium and potassium in roughly equivalent amounts, but we tend to get much more sodium than potassium in modern diets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MFnrMpzBA

[PlayBox]

potassium also usually in the form of salt

Table salt is sodium chloride. Sea salt is better but not the entire solution.

The body needs both sodium and potassium in roughly equivalent amounts, but we tend to get much more sodium than potassium in modern diets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MFnrMpzBA

solution: consume banana

[chyros]

Water + Potassium

Exactly, or low-sodium salt. That's already got the proportions adjusted to compensate.

[phinix]

When we are in the subject of salt and its unhealthyness, which salt do you guys use for your cooking?
Which low-sodium would you suggest?
I've read that Himalayan pink salt is better. Are there better options?

[chyros]

I've read that Himalayan pink salt is better.

Why on Earth would you say that? Oo

[fohat.digs]

I've read that Himalayan pink salt is better.
 

Why on Earth would you say that?

I read that too. The impurities that make it pink will obviously change the flavor and nutrition profiles.

Bought some and it is very good, but I don't use it because it has (a very small amount of) grit in it that is unpleasant when I chomp down on it.

[chyros]

I've read that Himalayan pink salt is better.
 

Why on Earth would you say that?

I read that too. The impurities that make it pink will obviously change the flavor and nutrition profiles.

Bought some and it is very good, but I don't use it because it has (a very small amount of) grit in it that is unpleasant when I chomp down on it.

Well sure, but what is "better"? Tastier, healthier, makes for easier cooking, etc? In any case, all your're doing is adding trace impurities to your dish. The amounts are so low that it'd be difficult to defend a genuinely noticeable effect, I think. You may as well just sprinkle some rust into your dish and save on expensive salt.

[phinix]

I've read that Himalayan pink salt is better.

Why on Earth would you say that? Oo

Based on sodium levels compared to regular table salt.
Table salt contains 2360 milligrams of sodium per teaspoon, whereas a teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt contains 1680 milligrams of sodium.
That is what I've read.

[phinix]

I've read that Himalayan pink salt is better.
 

Why on Earth would you say that?

I read that too. The impurities that make it pink will obviously change the flavor and nutrition profiles.

Bought some and it is very good, but I don't use it because it has (a very small amount of) grit in it that is unpleasant when I chomp down on it.

Well sure, but what is "better"? Tastier, healthier, makes for easier cooking, etc? In any case, all your're doing is adding trace impurities to your dish. The amounts are so low that it'd be difficult to defend a genuinely noticeable effect, I think. You may as well just sprinkle some rust into your dish and save on expensive salt.

I have no idea, if its tastier, never used it.

[chyros]

I've read that Himalayan pink salt is better.

Why on Earth would you say that? Oo

Based on sodium levels compared to regular table salt.
Table salt contains 2360 milligrams of sodium per teaspoon, whereas a teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt contains 1680 milligrams of sodium.
That is what I've read.

That sounds like it's had potassium added to it, frankly. In any case, it's the same sodium reduction as what you get with ordinary low-sodium salt; no magic pinkness needed.

[fohat.digs]

a teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt contains 1680 milligrams of sodium.

no magic pinkness
 

My Himalayan salt is very coarse, whereas table salt is fine, so the overall product mass of a spoonful might be less.

I once visited Hawaii and was surprised to see dramatically different colors of sand beaches, one quite orange-red, another very black, etc, I was startled to see anything outside the narrow beige-to-tan spectrum that I was accustomed to.

Significant chemical differences from place to place seem pretty natural.

[ArchDill]

I like to have a side of food with my serving of salt.