On 3/28/2012 10:34 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Dave > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 28/03/2012 1:37 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>> "Julie > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> I know that celery is high in sodium but I never had salty tasting
>>>> celery
>>>> until just now. I know someone else reported on this before. I think
>>>> it
>>>> was Lee. I have had bitter tasting celery a few times. But this stuff
>>>> tastes like someone gave it a really good sprinkle of sea salt. I don't
>>>> mind it. I like salty things. I just find it to be interesting!
>>>
>>> It varies. I've had some very salty celery and some extremely sweet
>>> celery.
>>> Just has to do with the weather when it was growing I think. Celery is
>>> kind
>>> of salty to start with. I find I need less salt when I cook with it.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Celery is funny stuff. It is usually quite bland, but I have on occasion
>> found it to have much more flavour than usual. A bout a month ago I put
>> one stalk of celery into a pot of soup and it turned out to be too much
>> celery flavour.
>
> I keep dried celery for soup and such if I don't have the real stuff in the
> house. I only need to use a teensy bit of that.
>
>
I've never noticed celery being particularly salty. Possibly, because I
usually use it cooked. I don't really like the standard green celery and
like it naturally blanched, which avoids the bitter chlorophyll taste
but I have to go to Amish farmers' markets to get it.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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