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"So nine times out of ten the salt is retained in the leaves of the plant, so you’d have to eat many many kilos of potatoes before you’d exceed your recommended
by thret 12y ago
"So nine times out of ten the salt is retained in the leaves of the plant, so you’d have to eat many many kilos of potatoes before you’d exceed your recommended salt intake. But some of the salads are heavy with salt"
Then how are the leaves disposed of, I do not know. Fed to pigs or burnt perhaps, if they were simply used as mulch you would still wind up with a buildup of salt in the soil.
- delinka 12y agoBurning leaves a pile of salt. I, too, am curious where they expect the salt to disappear to.
- thisGuysAccount 12y agoIf you burn it, and have a pile of salt, it might be possible to remove the ash and keep the salt.
- DanBC 12y agoBurn the leaves and use the ash in artisanal soap?
- ben0x539 12y agoMaybe they can just dump them back into the sea.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoSalt is worth money. If you have a bunch of salty leaves, you should be able to process them and get the salt out.
- roywiggins 12y agoMight cost you more money to get the salt out than you can sell the salt for, though.
- mubhij 12y agoJust dump the leaves in the ocean. Biodegradable and the salt came from the ocean anyways. The leaves if too concentrated will intake a lot of water and their cells burst. Or the leaves won't be too concentrated and will be eaten by nature.