"Reg" > wrote in message
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> Kent wrote:
>
>> The problem with that is that you don't know the ratio of sugar to salt
>> in TQ.
>
>
> TQ contains an insignificant amount of sugar. On the
> order of 2% or less.
> Reg

Reg, if you assume TQ is 98% or so NaCl, the salt concentration of the brine
cure recipe on the TQ label is 40%. They say one cup TQ to 4 cups H20.
That's almost poisonous. Even if the salt to sugar ratio was-is 50% the
brine would be 20+-% NaCl. That's half poisonous. To eat that much salt you
would have to take a diuretic like thiazide before eating.