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Default Canned food salt content

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:19:56 +0100, Janet > wrote:

>In article >,
says...
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:26:21 +0100, Janet > wrote:
>>
>> >In article >, says...
>> >
>> > I also said that even homemade soups
>> >> tend to be among the saltier foods we eat - that's been my experience,
>> >> that you have to put significant salt into even your homemade soup for
>> >> it to taste good.
>> >
>> > Not IME. That suggests there must be something wrong with your
>> >recipes, ingredients or method.
>> >
>> > Janet UK.

>>
>> I agree, I put some salt but not really enough that given the quantity
>> of liquid it is going into, that it could be considered high salt.
>>
>> I just checked, I regularly cook about 50 cups of soup, 5 L

>
>um, isn't 50 US cups about 11 Litres?
>
>> and add about a tablespoon of salt.

>
> ! I'd call that a lot of salt.



Depends what type of salt... a Tbsp of kosher salt is not too much for
11 L of soup. I don't cook with table salt, too easy to over salt. I
cook with kosher salt and never measure with anything but my hands.