Salt is a great seasoning ingredient. It enhances the flavor of meals and makes your food taste better. Our body requires that we take in salt every day. In fact, we could not live without it!
Here are some fun and interesting facts about salt
Only 6% of the salt that we use in the United States is used as food. It is used for many other reasons. In fact, 17% is used for keeping ice off of roads in the winter.- If you soak older, wrinkled apples in a mixture of salt and water, the wrinkles will go away.
- Salt (sodium chloride) It is the only family of rocks regularly eaten by people.
- Mixing salt in with the water of cut flowers in a vase will help the flowers live longer.
- If you rub salt on your griddle, your pancakes will not stick.
- Every cell of your body contains salt.
- Adding a little salt to your boiling water when boiling eggs will help prevent the egg from cracking. It also stops the egg from coming out of the shell if it does crack.
- You can test the freshness of eggs in a cup of salt water. Fresh eggs will sink and bad eggs will float.
- Sprinkling salt in your pantry helps to keep ants away.
- Your body needs 200 mg of salt per day to be healthy.
- You can sprinkle salt between bricks or rocks where you don’t want grass to grow.
