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Why add a rock to your food just to enhance taste? Sodium is naturally present in all plants and meat no need for extra intake and besides that huge quantity of

by givan 8y ago

Why add a rock to your food just to enhance taste? Sodium is naturally present in all plants and meat no need for extra intake and besides that huge quantity of sodium that is taken from the salt that is added in every non sweet food messes up your body at cellular level https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%2B/K%2B-ATPase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%2B/K%2B-ATPase

damon_c 8y ago
You should reconsider this stance before you miss out on too much deliciousness.
draw_down 8y ago
Come on.
goplusplus 8y ago
Well for starters its a not a rock, its a mineral.
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  "Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids" Yeah sure.
dmd 8y ago
> Why add a rock to your food just to enhance taste? Didn't you just answer your own question?
kazinator 8y ago
> naturally present in all plants and meat no need for extra intake This is just plain misinformation. People who sweat a lot due to physical labour, exercise, or hot weather, require extra salt --- particularly if they eat a "clean" diet free of processed foods as you seem to advocate. Inadequate salt intake results in problems like fatigue/lethargy and muscle cramps. Animals also lick salt; supplementation with salt not some human-invented vice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_lick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_lick Salt is so important that it was used as currency once; that's why what you earn is still called a "salary".
ip26 8y ago
Sodium is naturally present in all plants and meat no need for extra intake It doesn't appear there by magic. Many wild animals love their salt licks, and for some licking rocks is their primary source. But anyway, by your argument virtually all spices are pointless. I can't really get behind that.
- givan 8y ago
  Spices are plants
  - ip26 8y ago
    With no added nutritional value that isn't already there in your food
dragonwriter 8y ago
> Why add a rock to your food I'll let you answer that question: > just to enhance taste? Yes, that's exactly why. > Sodium is naturally present in all plants and meat no need for extra intake If that were true humans (and large numbers of other animals) probably wouldn't have developed a strong taste for salt. It's true that it's quite easy in the modern world (especially with processed and restaurant food) to overdo it, and restraint is called for. > that huge quantity of sodium that is taken from the salt that is added in every non sweet food messes up your body at cellular level Adding salt doesn't mean adding a huge quantity in every non-sweet food. (Processed foods do tend to that, but that's not a “why add salt” but a “why eat processed foods” issue.)

by givan 8y ago

damon_c 8y ago

You should reconsider this stance before you miss out on too much deliciousness.

draw_down 8y ago

Come on.

goplusplus 8y ago

Well for starters its a not a rock, its a mineral.

Dylan16807 8y ago
"Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids" Yeah sure.

dmd 8y ago

> Why add a rock to your food just to enhance taste? Didn't you just answer your own question?

kazinator 8y ago

> naturally present in all plants and meat no need for extra intake This is just plain misinformation. People who sweat a lot due to physical labour, exercise, or hot weather, require extra salt --- particularly if they eat a "clean" diet free of processed foods as you seem to advocate. Inadequate salt intake results in problems like fatigue/lethargy and muscle cramps. Animals also lick salt; supplementation with salt not some human-invented vice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_lick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_lick Salt is so important that it was used as currency once; that's why what you earn is still called a "salary".

ip26 8y ago

Sodium is naturally present in all plants and meat no need for extra intake It doesn't appear there by magic. Many wild animals love their salt licks, and for some licking rocks is their primary source. But anyway, by your argument virtually all spices are pointless. I can't really get behind that.

givan 8y ago
Spices are plants
- ip26 8y ago
  With no added nutritional value that isn't already there in your food

dragonwriter 8y ago

> Why add a rock to your food I'll let you answer that question: > just to enhance taste? Yes, that's exactly why. > Sodium is naturally present in all plants and meat no need for extra intake If that were true humans (and large numbers of other animals) probably wouldn't have developed a strong taste for salt. It's true that it's quite easy in the modern world (especially with processed and restaurant food) to overdo it, and restraint is called for. > that huge quantity of sodium that is taken from the salt that is added in every non sweet food messes up your body at cellular level Adding salt doesn't mean adding a huge quantity in every non-sweet food. (Processed foods do tend to that, but that's not a “why add salt” but a “why eat processed foods” issue.)