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The milligrams you do not taste · 3 min
Salt, quietly
Bread, ham, sauce, a ‘healthy’ soup. Salt is not only the shaker. It is how a factory makes bland starch interesting.
Shop the Meat & deli aisleWhere it hides
Cured meat, cheese, bread, ketchup, noodles, a broth carton. One ham sandwich can be a day’s salt before lunch. We already pull the nutrition box for this. Open Why this number.
MSG and friends
Monosodium glutamate is salt plus a savoury trick. We mark it. It is not a poison story. It is a sign the recipe is chasing flavour without cooking. A tomato, garlic, and time still work.
