Re: [a grain of salt

[Guest guest]

Mambo mambo,

Unfortunately one gram (1,000 mg) of sodium is in about 1/3 teaspoon of

salt. Most boxes of salt give 1/4 t. as 590 mg of sodium. For those of us

who want to lower our blood pressure and are trying to get most of our

calcium from vegetables, training our taste buds to be OK w 500 mg of sodium

per day can be about as daunting as restricting calories. My buds are

gradually adapting. I have cut the salt I used to cook rice with (2 C dry)

from 1 t. to 1/2 t. to 1/4 t. At each level it has taken me about a month

for the rice to taste " normal " . Soon I will go to zero salt (for the rice).

Some foods surprise me: oats seem to taste fine w/o salt. There are several

studies showing that it takes about 4 months for taste buds to adapt to a

low salt, low fat, low sugar diet. The problem then, of course, is that what

most others eat then tastes intolerably salty, sweet and rich!

S Pollock

MM wrote:

By the way, how much is one gram of salt? A heaping tablespoon I hope