Hi everyone, the following is purely based upon my own musings and hopefully will give food for thought and maybe even a little debate.
We all know about the recent concerns about sugars part to play in obesity and associated poor health, we also know that giving up sugar is no easy task, but could salt be be sugars addictive little brother?
OK, take a cup of coffee or a bowl of cornflakes, a bowl of fresh strawberries ect. Those with a sweet tooth will be wanting to sprinkle a little sugar. However if you go without refined sugar entirely for a good length of time your tastebuds become more susceptible to sweetness meaning that you start to get enough sweetness from the milk in your coffee or the sweetness from the corn that made the flake or indeed the natural sugars that make fruit taste like sweets.
So what if we go without refined salt in our diets for a goodly time, would we/ do we really need it to enhance our food, is the refined salt in our diets numbing our tastebuds.
Professional chefs swear by it, season as you go right? but let's not forget professional bakers love of sugar in our cakes, donuts ect.
Just my thoughts, I look forward to yours.
We all know about the recent concerns about sugars part to play in obesity and associated poor health, we also know that giving up sugar is no easy task, but could salt be be sugars addictive little brother?
OK, take a cup of coffee or a bowl of cornflakes, a bowl of fresh strawberries ect. Those with a sweet tooth will be wanting to sprinkle a little sugar. However if you go without refined sugar entirely for a good length of time your tastebuds become more susceptible to sweetness meaning that you start to get enough sweetness from the milk in your coffee or the sweetness from the corn that made the flake or indeed the natural sugars that make fruit taste like sweets.
So what if we go without refined salt in our diets for a goodly time, would we/ do we really need it to enhance our food, is the refined salt in our diets numbing our tastebuds.
Professional chefs swear by it, season as you go right? but let's not forget professional bakers love of sugar in our cakes, donuts ect.
Just my thoughts, I look forward to yours.
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