Food trivia | 40 interesting facts about salt

Some people love sweet food and candies, while some others love salty food. Salt is something that inevitably all of us add in our daily diet.

Salty food is “created” by salt, as it is profound. But how many things do we know about salt?

1. Salt is first of all a mineral.
2. It is composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).
3. The salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite.
4. Salt is found in many things in nature, such as the sea.
5. The Dead Sea is the saline or saltiest location worldwide.
6. Despite the fact of the word Sea, Death Sea is a lake.
7. Death Sea is located between Israel and Jordan.
8. Saltiness is a sense, and an important one for the human existence.
9. Salt is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous food seasonings.
10. Salting is an important method of food preservation.
11. Some of the earliest evidence of salt processing dates to around 6,000 BC.
12. It is located in the today country of Romania.
13. Around the same period there evidence of salt-works in China as well.
14. There is more salt in animal tissues, such as meat, blood, and milk, than in plant tissues
15. In Africa, salt was used as currency south of the Sahara.
16. Slabs of rock salt were used as coins in Abyssinia.
17. Mpoorish merchants in the 6th century traded salt for gold, weight for weight
18. Salzburg, Hallstatt, and Hallein lie within 17 km (11 mi) of each other on the river Salzach in central Austri.
19. Their names are linked to the word salt, as they are located in an area with extensive salt deposits.
20. Salz means salt.
21. Hallstatt was the site of the world’s first salt mine.
22. The word salary comes from the Latin word for salt.
23. If you thing linguistics got us an answer, then you are wrong!
24. The word salad literally means “salted”.
25. It comes from the ancient Roman practice of… salting!
26. The voyages of Christopher Columbus are said to have been financed from salt production in southern Spain.
27. The oppressive salt tax in France was one of the causes of the French Revolution.
28. The salt tax existed in the British empire as well
29. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led at least 100,000 people on the “Dandi March” or “Salt Satyagraha”.
30. During the protest, protesters made their own salt from the sea thus defying British rule and No paying the salt tax.
31. There are 12 types of salt.
32. Some of them are the following:Table salt, kosher salt, sea salt, fleur de sel/Fiore di cervia (“flower of salt” in French and Italian), sel gris (gray salt) etc
33. Amethyst Bamboo 9x salt, which rings up at $398 a pound, may be the most expensive in the world. According to chemistry it is salt
34. Venice, Italy may be famous for its canals now, but salt imports fueled its rise as an influential trade power by the end of the 13th century.
35. Salt is mentioned many different times in the Bible
36. Its preservative properties made it an apt metaphor for permanence and conviction.
37. Even foods that don’t taste salty may contain it.
38. Even brown sugar has a really small amount of salt.
39. Sea salt may sound healthier than table salt, but most sea salts contain roughly the same proportion of sodium.That’s like 40%.
40. Too much salt can cause issues to you health such as headaches.