Submitted 2 days ago by YICHM@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
These two sentences are translated from Chinese, so the wording may be suboptimal. The original version is given below.
鹽十分鹹；糖不太甜。
You might laugh, but the first time I made Lebanese-style yoghurt (the one with mint and cucumbers), I simply added salt in the same amount I would have added sugar for a sweet yoghurt. Needless to say, I couldn’t eat it…
TIL: savoury yoghurt exists.
to be fair, i shouldn’t be that surprised since we have savoury soy milk here.
I believe they’re referring to [khyar bi] laban which is similar to tzatziki
Do they have different sugar in China?
I’ve only seen slightly less refined (yellow) sugar being used at home, but white sugar isn’t any sweeter.
Sugar is less soluble than salt. Touch some salt to your tongue and it dissolves very well and rapidly. Touch some sugar to your tongue and the process is slow. That’s why us Americans love soda and corn syrup. Also why that thin flaky salt is so great.
One correct statement and one incorrect statement.
Guess China copied sugar wrong.
But is it sugary?
Is salt very sour? Very savory? Which one is a better antonym for sweet? What about an antonym for sugary?
Is salt very sour? Very savory?
second one.
Which one is a better antonym for sweet?
in Chinese it’s bitter (not enjoyable).
What about an antonym for sugary?
bland?
I feel like you never licked straight sugar before, OP.
I have licked both. Licking table salt is more intense.
Funny thing is, sucralose (brand name: Splenda) is 600 times sweeter than sugar. If you open a Splenda packet and a sugar packet side by side, you seem to be getting less sucralose. The fact is, you’re getting a LOT less sucralose! Most of what is in a Splenda packet is filler material that is safe/harmless to consume. I feel like you would be sick if you ate a teaspoon of raw sucralose, but I’m really not sure what would happen. I would not want to find out.
Some say it’s bad for you… I think, largely, this either comes from ignorance (simply not knowing), or fear of a repeat of the aspartame scare of the 1980s (Equal/Sweet-n-Low was thought to cause cancer — it didn’t, but, like the Tylenol scare (where someone opened a bottle and put something else in and someone got sick, leading to those tamper-proof seals you can’t fully remove — that’s why you can’t — it made people wary), or even being part of or affected by Big Sugar propaganda that says fat, not sugar, makes people gain weight (“after all, it’s right in the name”), but the fact is, one Splenda packet in a normal cup of coffee (6-12oz) or two in a larger, gas-station sized (20-24oz) cup is so little of the material, it won’t really do anything to you.
Salt is salt… unless it’s kosher salt or sea salt, which tastes better but lacks something table salt has? I dunno. I mostly just use table salt. In small amounts, of course. I don’t think anyone who cooks skips salt entirely — unless they use MSG, which is a lower-sodium alternative that is also the subject of a conspiracy theory — that Chinese buffets use it to make you fuller, faster. (Sodium, or consuming less sodium, will not make you feel full. Rice, on the other hand, tends to expand in the stomach. But that’s more to do with rice, and not at all to do with sodium.)
Differences between salt are mostly textural. Trace minerals can change the flavour, and people do sell flavour infusions and mixes.
Drusas@fedia.io 2 days ago
I know it's not meant to be taken literally, but it is literally incorrect. If you don't consume a lot of sugar, it tastes very sweet when you do.
CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
When you add sugar to a dish you do it by the cupful or spoonful but when you add salt you do it by the pinch. It’s definitely true.
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Nah mate. Stop eating sugar for a while and suddenly sweet fruits can be too much sometimes. I can’t eat sugary foods anymore. Adding some salt to a dish brings out flavour, adding sugar makes it sweet.
YICHM@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It is meant to be taken literally. It seems that I’ve consumed way too much sugar.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I stopped drinking pop about 10 years ago and I bought a bottle of coke a couple days ago because I had a free coupon I didn’t want to waste. I had about 3 sips before I started feeling so sick I nearly threw up on the drive home.
erin@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Does this happen as well when you drink juice or eat fruit? If not, it’s likely a placebo and not the sugar.