"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> Ken wrote:
>> Anyone using a salt substitute because of high blood pressure have a
>> favorite? Can you use it in a recipe you cook like you can regular salt?
>>
>> Ken
>>
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>
> I don't like any of those salt substitutes in my cooking. I don't think
> they work. I don't salt when I cook (with one or two exceptions)
>
> When I do think something needs salt, I use a product called Salt Sense®
> It is real salt, however it contains only 1/3 the sodium of regular salt.
>
> I have trouble finding it in most of the country. I can find it in New
> Jersey and when I need some (I use one 17.3 oz. package in 2-3 years) one
> of the kids visiting or me visiting up there replaces the supply.
>
> The manufacturer is Cargill, Incorporated, Minneapolis, MN 55440. web
> site on the box I have is www.cargillsalt.com
>
> Both of us watch salt for a lot of reasons, but this stuff doesn't effect
> us like regular salt does because the same amount is only 1/3 of the
> sodium. It has to do with the way they mill the salt, I think.
>
>
We taste the salt in food by the weight, not volume of NaCl per volume of
water. Cargill has simply made a salt product that is lighter in weight, and
therefore less salty per volume than table salt. You have to use more of the
Cargill product or of Kosher salt to get the same degree of salt flavor. Our
body's extracellular fluid, or serum, is about .9% by weight of salt[NaCl].
Salty foods contain at least twice that amount. Kosher salt has a specific
gravity of 1.625, compred to 2.165 for straight Morton's table salt. To get
to the same level of "salt seasoning" with 1 cup of Kosher salt only require
3/4 cup of table salt, as far as the sodium, or NaCl content is concerned.
The Cargill product has somehow managed to increase this ratio to 1 cup
Cargill to 2/3 cup of table salt. They're making kind of a super Kosher. If
you really want to decrease your sodium[NaCl] intake you have to try a
substitute. The one that's been on the market forever, and that tastes
terrible is potassium chloride.

The short term answer is your favorite diuretic. That will cut the Sodium
down, but then we have to deal with the Potassium!

Happy Hydrochlorothiazide to all,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrochlorothiazide

Theron