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What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, CS and more
- cratermoon 4y agoI can tell you that KCl is not at all an adequate substitute for NaCl. I wouldn't care to sample LiCl.
- zeristor 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_chloride#Precautions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_chloride#Precautions "Lithium salts affect the central nervous system in a variety of ways. While the citrate, carbonate, and orotate salts are currently used to treat bipolar disorder, other lithium salts including the chloride were used in the past. For a short time in the 1940s lithium chloride was manufactured as a salt substitute for people with hypertension, but this was prohibited after the toxic effects of the compound (tremors, fatigue, nausea) were recognized." They seeme to like its lemony zest, although they claimed to only select those which weren't toxic, its use as a psychiartric drug was ignored.