9 Nasty Truths About Your Favorite Foods
Finally, BBQ Pitmasters Gets It Right
With news
agencies now saying that a major source of salt in daily diets is bread, carb-laden loaves could once again come
under fire from nutrition-fanatics. Even though the headlines blame bread, more than 75 percent of all the salt in
people’s diets come from processed foods, only a small portion of which are breads. Salt is necessary in bread
making, not only for flavor, but because it interacts with the yeast, retarding its growth and producing a
better-textured, tastier loaf. One teaspoon of salt weighs just over 2 grams, and organizations like the British government recommend a maximum of 6 grams
of salt a day. If a loaf of homemade or non-preprocessed bread has one to three tablespoons of salt in it, there is
nothing to worry about unless you are eating multiple loaves of bread on a daily basis.
Some salt is necessary in the diet, serving functions like regulating fluid levels in the body. Do yourself a favor and cut back on the deli meats, don’t just cut back on bread.
