JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhy do humans put salt on nuts such as cashews (assuming they don’t just require salt to form)?message-squaremessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down18
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareWhy do humans put salt on nuts such as cashews (assuming they don’t just require salt to form)?JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareJoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoOk, so it’s just a taste thing in this particular case, and not some other logistical thing like preservation?
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 year agoThe amount used on nuts you buy is for taste, preserving things in salt uses far more salt than that.
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minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoNot 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_(food)#Meat
Salt makes things taste better.
Ok, so it’s just a taste thing in this particular case, and not some other logistical thing like preservation?
The amount used on nuts you buy is for taste, preserving things in salt uses far more salt than that.
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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_(food)#Meat