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let me try again i accidentally emailled instead of posting.

i read an article years ago about the large amount of salt that is naturally
occurring in celery, then on another group a woman posted a link i no longer
have about it when her water retention went way up... like broccoli which
has a large amount of whatever it is that is used to make aspirine, Lee
"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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> On 5/21/2012 11:36 AM, Storrmmee wrote:
>> my question is does it contain less salt than regular celery? Lee
>>
>> who is working out the lower salt food plan for the dh

>
> Salt content on home grown vegetables is going to depend upon the amount
> of salt in your soil Lee. Plants don't make salt, just absorb it, at least
> that's what I learned in one course in agriculture a thousand years ago.
> Herbivores eat vegetation that has absorbed salt, then are eaten by
> carnivores who get their salt from the herbivores. We eat both of them so
> much of our salt intake comes from eating meat and vegetables grown on
> soil with salt in it.
>
> I've been off salt for about 25 years, never salt the food I'm cooking or
> eating and read the labels on everything packaged.
>
> We don't have much salt in our soil here according to tests we've run, and
> the geologists tell me that 50K years ago our soil was at the bottom of
> the Gulf of Mexico. Lots of rain tends to leech the salt out and take it
> down deeper.
>
> How did you find out how much salt was in the celery you were buying, or
> was it home grown?