"This is an everlasting salt covenant between you and your descendants before the Lord." -Bible People 18: 19
Introduction: Since ancient times, salt has been given a broad metaphorical meaning in the cultures of many nationalities in the world. For ancient Hebrews and modern Jews, salt is a symbol of God's Covenant with Israel, which is eternal and firm. In the Indian army under British colonial rule, soldiers swear by salt that salt is loyalty and salt is trust. On the International Space Station, Russian astronauts greeted their counterparts on the American space shuttle Discovery with bread and salt. Salt represents preciousness and scarcity.
Salt, which makes people love deeply and hate badly, can't be done without it, nor can it be done with more, and the mood for it seems to be mixed. According to research statistics, the salt intake of Chinese people generally exceeds the standard, and the average salt intake is 10.6 g, which is nearly half of the recommended amount of 6 g in dietary guidelines. It can be seen that the salt intake of Chinese people generally exceeds the standard.
The role of salt in the body: The reason why we need salt (sodium chloride) is mainly the sodium ion in the salt, and the role of sodium ion is very important, which plays a vital role in maintaining the acid-base balance in the body, balancing blood pressure, regulating water in the body and maintaining neuromuscular excitability. However, water can carry a boat and capsize it. Sodium sounds so good, but if it is ingested too much, it will also cause serious harm, which will cause high blood pressure, edema and increase the burden on the kidneys. If salt is mistakenly added to baby milk powder as sugar, it may cause poisoning and even death.
Salt intake of special people: Because the baby's kidney function is not fully developed, it is forbidden to eat edible salt in the food of infants under one year old. After one year old, the baby's daily salt intake should be less than one gram. Many treasure mothers think that this is too cruel and tasteless. How can the baby eat food? We shouldn't impose our sense of taste on the baby. In fact, the baby's taste buds are different from those of adults. Such food is delicious for the baby.
So much salt on the market, what's the difference? In the supermarket, we will see all kinds of salt. The common salts in the supermarket are refined salt, low sodium salt, rock salt and sea salt. What are their differences and how to choose them? I'll explain it to you as soon as I come today.
Refined salt: refined salt should be processed at a high temperature of more than 800 degrees to ensure that it can remain stable in any environment. Once these salts are chemically processed, there will be many inorganic substances that the human body can't digest. Refined salt is a common salt in supermarkets, which can be divided into iodized salt and non-iodized salt. In addition, anti-caking agent will be added to prevent it from caking. The salty taste of iodized salt is very strong and irritating, and the sodium content is high. Therefore, as long as a teaspoon is enough, the sodium content in your body will exceed the standard. For iodized salt, whether it is eaten or not varies from person to person. People who often eat seafood in high iodine areas and coastal areas and those with hyperthyroidism should not choose iodized salt. Inland people can take it as appropriate.
Low-sodium salt: Iodized salt is used as raw material, and part of potassium chloride is used instead of sodium chloride, so as to reduce the sodium content. The salinity of low-sodium salt is similar to that of ordinary refined salt. Note that the use of low-sodium salt is only a strategy to reduce salt and limit sodium. The principle is to reduce salt intake, and don't overdo it because of low sodium. China clearly stipulates that low-sodium salt is not suitable for kidney patients, hypertensive patients, high-temperature workers and heavy manual workers during taking medicine. After all, the above-mentioned people.
Rock salt: Rock salt is formed by the accumulation and solidification of salt lakes after long-term evaporation and drying up, and it is rock salt after grinding these salt mines. Rock salt is rich in minerals, which can supplement trace elements in human body and is less polluted. Because of minerals, there are different colors of rock salt, and Himalayan powder salt is one of them.
Sea salt: Most sea salts are not heavily processed like refined salt, so they can retain more trace elements. You will obviously feel that the salinity in sea salt is much lower, milder and richer in taste. This is the result of naturally giving sea salt a perfect ratio of organic sodium. Secondly, sea salt is rich in different minerals according to its origin, which is a good way to balance electrolytes and help cells supplement basic nutrients. In hot summer, when the body loses water seriously, you can add some sea salt to the drinking water (lemonade can also be used), which can not only replenish water but also ingest the minerals needed by the body. At present, the problem of seawater pollution in the world is very serious. Before buying natural sea salt, it is necessary to determine whether the source of sea salt comes from clean and pollution-free sea areas.
The composition of natural seawater is quite similar to that of human blood. Humans and nature depend on each other, so our bodies need to follow nature and eat the most natural and natural product-sea salt, which is exactly the core and basic thing among our nutrients.
"salt" is easy to hide, but "sodium" is hard to prevent. Many food packages do not indicate the salt content, but appear in the form of sodium, so we know the conversion formula of sodium and salt and can work it out:
1g sodium =2.5g salt.
400mg sodium =1g salt
Knowing the conversion formula, let's see how much salt there is in some foods we eat every day!
Plum:
The above is the ingredient list of nine-system preserved plum. I didn't expect it. The preserved plum, which tastes sweet and sour, is also a representative of high salt value. Because the pickling of this preserved plum requires nine procedures, it is called nine-system preserved plum. The first process is salting: every 250kg of fresh plum fruit is added with 45kg of salt, that is, every 100g of plum needs 18g of salt, and after complicated production procedures, the above results appear. According to the data of sodium content, every100g of plum contains as much as 8g of salt, so you can eat 8g of salt (.
Instant noodles:
A packet of 85g instant noodle cakes contains 2g of salt, but we can't just eat noodles. Of course, it's only delicious if we add a seasoning packet (a packet of seasoning contains 4g of salt), and we will even enjoy a100g ham sausage (containing 3g of salt) that our friends will give us, which is well-deserved as a "high salt value". After eating a packet of instant noodles, we have eaten nearly.
Noodles:
A bowl of delicious Zhajiang Noodles is really delicious, but do you know how much salt it contains? According to the formula, every100g of dried noodles contains about 3g of salt, and adults can eat about150-200g of noodles at a time, and then mix it with delicious fried sauce (dried yellow sauce is a high-salt food). After eating a bowl of Zhajiang Noodles, you can eat this day and a half.
Small secret recipe of salt restriction: 1, use salt restriction spoon
Every day, 6 grams of salt is dug out of the salt jar, which is just the amount of a beer bottle cap. If there are three people in the family, three bottles will be used. Separate the salt to be eaten that day and distribute it reasonably among three meals a day. It will subconsciously imply that there is so much salt today, and it will be gone after eating.
2. Put salt before cooking.
Putting salt before cooking can reduce the loss of salt, thus reducing the use of salt.
3. Use vinegar and lemon skillfully
The organic acids in vinegar and lemon can not only protect the vitamins in vegetables, but also increase the salty taste and reduce the use of salt.
4. Homemade seasoning
Most seasonings in the market are high in salt and sodium, such as thick soup treasure: every100g of pig bone thick soup contains 7.3g of sodium, and every100g of thick slippery fish soup and old hen soup contains 6.5g and 5.9g of sodium respectively.
5, eat less processed food:
Bread, cheese, processed meat, canned food, etc. are all rich in salt and should be reduced.
6. Reduce eating out
In order to increase the flavor and attract taste buds, most restaurant meals add a lot of seasonings such as chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and oyster sauce. Our favorite cold noodles in summer, in order to increase the elasticity of noodles, sellers often add baking soda rich in sodium, and a bowl of cold noodles can eat about 4 grams of salt.
Speaking of which, I'll give you a set of treasured recipes:
Homemade lemon salt:
Ingredients: one lime, one yellow lemon and 80g flaky sea salt.
1. Rub the skins of lime and yellow lemon into filaments and chop them.
2. Preheat the oven to 100℃, mix the peel with salt, spread it on oiled paper and put it in a baking tray.
3. Bake for 65 minutes until all the water in the peel evaporates.
Salt is not only edible, but also has these wonderful uses; 1. Hot compress:
250 grams of salt, stir-fry, wrap it in cloth, and wrap it on the lower abdomen or joints for warm ironing when the skin is not scalded. It can obviously improve rheumatic joint pain and dysmenorrhea.
2. Salt bath:
I remember that the first time I took a salt bath was in Korea. A physiotherapist at Korea Sanyu University taught us to take a bath with salt. It is still fresh in my memory. I can say without exaggeration that after taking a bath with salt, the skin smoothness can catch up with the baby's skin. What impressed me most is the ease and comfort after washing, which is beyond words. The method is very simple. After wetting the skin, rub the whole body with salt, rub it hard until the skin turns red, and then rinse it off. It's best to rub it with each other. You may not believe this, but I'm sure you will be impressed by it after you try.
Step 3 wash your face:
Wash your face with salt, exfoliate and remove blackheads to make your skin soft and smooth. The most important thing is that you won't feel tight after washing with facial cleanser. After washing, you will feel very comfortable, but don't wash it every day, twice a week is better.
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