Comment on Why do humans put salt on nuts such as cashews (assuming they don’t just require salt to form)?

Mamertine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ok, so it’s just a taste thing in this particular case, and not some other logistical thing like preservation?

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  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The amount used on nuts you buy is for taste, preserving things in salt uses far more salt than that.

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    • snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not necessarily, brine just means a water-salt mixture. You can dry salt preserve food as well, we just don’t do it very often anymore because we have better methods of preservation these days.

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_(food)#Meat

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