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• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d be curious to know how much salt you actually end up eating. It’s all fine to say no more than 5 grams, but how do you go about working out how much you actually had?

  E.g. I cook pasta with heaps of salt in the water, salty like the sea, but the vast majority of the salt goes down the drain when the pasta is strained.

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Of course, unless you’re being terribly precise, you don’t know very accurately.

    Though, with the exception of pasta water, you can keep track via number of teaspoons as an approximation, or if you have precise scales tare off your container to see how much you’re using.

    Packaged foods are much easier.

    I personally just try to keep it minimal while keeping the food taste nice. I don’t measure my salt.

    I’m not saying change your habits, just be aware that excessive salt can he unhealthy!

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well aware that excessive salt can be unhealthy 😅. I don’t even track what I eat too closely. I might make a big dish of lasagne, maybe the meat has 3 or 4 teaspoons of salt, then the pasta has some, the sauce has some, I might also throw in some soy sauce, the cheese has some, etc. Then out of this giant dish, I serve up one scoop, throw on some tomato sauce that has salt in it, and serve alongside vegetables that have their own salt content depending on how they were cooked.

      I honestly have no idea if I eat 2, 5, or 15 teaspoons of salt a day 😆

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      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I might make a big dish of lasagne, maybe the meat has 3 or 4 teaspoons of salt,

        Seems fine to me. That’s about 4 daily doses of salt, depending how many servings that is, probably totally fine. This isn’t medical advice haha

        In any case, at least you’re having something delicious 😁

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