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Salt

mewmewmintmewmewmint Raw Newbie
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Was looking at a website while searching for recipes. A guy claims that people eat too much salt. The theory is:

-salt wasn’t available to our ancestors -the taste of things will improve if you quit salt for a while -things have the right amount of salt in them already -you’ll be healthier not eating salt

And I’m having a hard time with this because: -salt free recipes are hard to find -recipes that use salt usually taste crappy without it

If any of you have experience not eating salt for a while please let me know about it.

I’d like to know:

-how long you tried the no salt diet -what changes you noticed, if any -how long it took to get to a point where the changes occurred -recipes you used to stay salt free

Comments

  • mewmewmintmewmewmint Raw Newbie

    MOTH:

    Would you notice anything if you ate too much salt? Did the flavours of foods improve after three months of no salt?

  • mewmewmintmewmewmint Raw Newbie

    Karuna: nice to meet you

    yes it helps.

    what kind of mono meals did you eat? what do you mean by mono meals?

    also: now that you’re off salt, if you made one of the recipes on here that used salt and left out the salt, do you think it would taste good?

    did flavors of other foods improve?

  • iluvlifeiluvlife Raw Newbie

    I don’t follow a strict no-salt diet but I don’t like it and I hardly ever use it. If you are interested in trying it but feel your food is too bland without it, try other spices to liven it up. Use onions and garlic as well as peppers and herbs. Check this out http://www.alsosalt.com/ I’m not really sure if that defeats the purpose but it’s just something I found quick on google.

  • mewmewmintmewmewmint Raw Newbie

    TheRawDance: no he just said salt in general

  • nyrunnernyrunner

    I never used to like salty things or add salt to my food but then I had a really bad experience – I had some digestive issues which started slowly along with decreased energy and not feeling well, and resulted in serious dehydration and loss of electrolytes, and a few days later I got really intense cravings for salt. To the point where I left work to go to the store to buy a bag of salty tortilla chips (at least they were plain corn chips haha) and ate the whole thing not out of hunger but because I NEEDED salt. I went on a 2 day salty binge of chips, tomatoes, and adding massive amounts of salt to my guacamole and even the raw chocolate sauce I make. I think going raw really cut all forms of hidden salt out of my diet that I might have been getting before without thinking about it. Since then I have made a conscious effort to get a little bit of salt in my diet and I have felt much better. I think salt in small amounts can be a good thing, in a natural form of course.

  • No BonesNo Bones

    If you cut out salt, which has a needed element added (Iodine) what can you use to replace the iodine?

  • BeetboyBeetboy

    I want to crack a joke about two peanuts that walk into a bar and one was assaulted but I won’t because I don’t want to get in trouble for being silly. Sorry everyone.

    PS. Rawry, you seem to be good here because you know a lot of knowledge. Welcome here, I am new here too.

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