If I ask you people this question, you will simply say, No. You may perhaps laugh at me too, for asking this simple question. Yes, salt is the vital flavour of our dishes without which each and every dish, except sweets look incomplete. Also our taste buds can’t sense other tastes and flavours easily, if this ‘spice’ is absent. I am saying so from my live example.

A few days back, I made a nice sambaar for my family. But I couldn’t find it for a long time why, my sambaar tasted indifferent. Actually I forgot the salt element and began to add each and every ingredient from salt and coriander to asafetida and methi seeds. Yet, I missed some flavour there. It looked as if I tasted something else. Suddenly a thought flashed through my mind, have I added enough salt? Yes, it was right. When I added half teaspoon to my sambaar, it tasted simply the best! That day only I understood that if we have not added enough salt to our dish, our taste buds can’t sense or recognize anything for sure.

So, it’s sure we can’t prepare a meal or supper without salt. But do you know how much salt can we take everyday? Is excess salt harmful to our health? Can it cause health related problems? I read somewhere years back, any thing tasteful to our taste buds is harmful to our health and stomach too. It’s indeed true, excess of salt, sugar and oil – the three vital factors of tastes of our dishes, can affect our body functioning if we forget those limits.

According to researches and reports, if you are a healthy person, 1tsp salt is sufficient for a day. As we grow with age, we need to reduce its amounts as our blood losses its capacity to distil salt from our blood resulting in salt deposits and various health related problems. Do you keep this amount in control? Have you ever thought about the intake of salt while eating snack packets and noodles? Salt can increase our blood pressure a lot leading to many problems including heart diseases and kidney problems.

So, let us substitute salt with a few ingredients like ginger, garlic, tomato and lemon and avoid pickles and snacks to improve our health because ‘strong mind always stay in a healthy body!’ We can’t avoid salt from our daily diet, yet we can reduce its amount considerably if we try so.

Article Posted By : Sandhya Rani  On March 01, 2013lView All Articles

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