Easy Steps to Less Salt

Salt just works. No other single food additive can be said to have a use in nearly all prepared dishes. Salt gives and enhances flavor, masks off flavors, stabilizes structure and texture, and preserves. Most important of all, salt nourishes—sodium and chloride, in the right amounts, are essential for sustaining life through roles that include helping to regulate fluid and electrolyte balance, pH, and metabolism. Summed up, you could say, we’re all “salt-seeking creatures,&rdqu…