@JoshuaSlowpoke777 to No Stupid Questions • 1 year agoWhy do humans put salt on nuts such as cashews (assuming they don’t just require salt to form)?message-square5arrow-up113arrow-down18
arrow-up15arrow-down1message-squareWhy do humans put salt on nuts such as cashews (assuming they don’t just require salt to form)?@JoshuaSlowpoke777 to No Stupid Questions • 1 year agomessage-square5
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•1 year agoThe amount used on nuts you buy is for taste, preserving things in salt uses far more salt than that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoNot necessarily, brine just means a water-salt mixture. You can dry salt preserve food as well, we just don’t do it very often anymore because we have better methods of preservation these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_(food)#Meat
The amount used on nuts you buy is for taste, preserving things in salt uses far more salt than that.
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Not necessarily, brine just means a water-salt mixture. You can dry salt preserve food as well, we just don’t do it very often anymore because we have better methods of preservation these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_(food)#Meat