Update on the salt.
I didn't go out for beers in the end, but should have done so becuase beer appears to be low in sodium. So low, in fact, that I decided to check it a couple of times. I googled, and found that beer tends to have around 11 - 18 mg. This website has a 12oz portion of regular beer (about 360ml) containing 18mg sodium. Which translates to 45mg. Which is tiny - 0.045g. I thought I must have got that wrong - that seems like less than evian. I tried a different site - which gives both Bud Light and Bud Regular as containing 11mg sodium.
I think I will switch from water to beer - purely for the impressively low salt content, you understand.
I was going to count my evening meal's salt content as well. I forgot completely, but fish should have hardly any salt, and I had a small amount of cheese, the packet of which said per 100g, 0.7g sodium. I didn't weigh the cheese but we used less than 50g between us (estimated). So - 0.7g sodium becomes 1.75g salt per 100g, and I didn't eat a quarter of that. So call it 0.5g. (conservative)
Therefore I conclude that unless a teaspoon of mustard and a splash of worcestershire sauce (I'm losing the will to live here and it's getting late) together contain more than 2.2g salt then I managed to eat less than 6g salt today.
And that's with no processed food, no bread, no additional salt, no pre-prepared food, no crisps. This is clearly going to be quite a challenge, but has proven how much salt slips under my radar.
I thought I might not count my salt intake tomorrow because I'm having beanz on potatoes (Laura's coming over and I'm going to try to convince her to watch the first hour or two of Fiddler on the Roof which I've never seen) and I bet beans are full of salt. Even Rakusens' Kosher baked beans. But then I decided to investigate to see how salty beans are. I mean, I was shocked with my comparatively salty lunch and am curious about supper. After all, it's not as if I have anything pressing to do like sleep or update my CV.
Oy vey - Rakusens don't even state the salt content on their beans! However, on the ingredients label it's the fifth ingredient - after beans, tomato puree, water and sugar. Forgive me, I got carried away at this point. I went and grabbed the can of emergency beans (they only sell the kosher ones in sainsburys and I shop mostly in waitrose because it's closer) because I was getting a little worried about salt. Not half as worried as any sane observer would have been about the state of my mental health had they seen me poking around in a cupboard with a serving spoon trying to knock a can of beans off the top shelf, but I digress. The emergency beans only contain 1.7g salt per serving. However salt is the sixth ingredient not the fifth (as with Rakusens') so we're not comparing like with like here as much as I had thought. More granny smith with conference pears than royal gala with pink lady, if you get my drift.
Considering a serving is half a full-size tin, beans aren't nearly as salty as I had thought! They aren't as low-salt as a can of beer, but beer doesn't mash as well into a lovely fluffy baked potato as beans do.
Congratulations, you were present at the emergence of yet another obsession.
I think I will switch from water to beer - purely for the impressively low salt content, you understand.
I was going to count my evening meal's salt content as well. I forgot completely, but fish should have hardly any salt, and I had a small amount of cheese, the packet of which said per 100g, 0.7g sodium. I didn't weigh the cheese but we used less than 50g between us (estimated). So - 0.7g sodium becomes 1.75g salt per 100g, and I didn't eat a quarter of that. So call it 0.5g. (conservative)
Therefore I conclude that unless a teaspoon of mustard and a splash of worcestershire sauce (I'm losing the will to live here and it's getting late) together contain more than 2.2g salt then I managed to eat less than 6g salt today.
And that's with no processed food, no bread, no additional salt, no pre-prepared food, no crisps. This is clearly going to be quite a challenge, but has proven how much salt slips under my radar.
I thought I might not count my salt intake tomorrow because I'm having beanz on potatoes (Laura's coming over and I'm going to try to convince her to watch the first hour or two of Fiddler on the Roof which I've never seen) and I bet beans are full of salt. Even Rakusens' Kosher baked beans. But then I decided to investigate to see how salty beans are. I mean, I was shocked with my comparatively salty lunch and am curious about supper. After all, it's not as if I have anything pressing to do like sleep or update my CV.
Oy vey - Rakusens don't even state the salt content on their beans! However, on the ingredients label it's the fifth ingredient - after beans, tomato puree, water and sugar. Forgive me, I got carried away at this point. I went and grabbed the can of emergency beans (they only sell the kosher ones in sainsburys and I shop mostly in waitrose because it's closer) because I was getting a little worried about salt. Not half as worried as any sane observer would have been about the state of my mental health had they seen me poking around in a cupboard with a serving spoon trying to knock a can of beans off the top shelf, but I digress. The emergency beans only contain 1.7g salt per serving. However salt is the sixth ingredient not the fifth (as with Rakusens') so we're not comparing like with like here as much as I had thought. More granny smith with conference pears than royal gala with pink lady, if you get my drift.
Considering a serving is half a full-size tin, beans aren't nearly as salty as I had thought! They aren't as low-salt as a can of beer, but beer doesn't mash as well into a lovely fluffy baked potato as beans do.
Congratulations, you were present at the emergence of yet another obsession.
posted by Chaya at 11:46 pm
3 Comments:
OK - now forget about the fucking sodium and drink the beer
Devon Cider contains no salt at all! Happy now ??
In my student days I was legendary (in my hall of residence) for being able to get completely legless on a fiver. I studied in London, so even ten years ago I eas an impressively cheap date.
Three bottles of "K" cider and I'd be hanging onto the nearest pillar in the Union. Four bottles and I'd be curled up at the bottom of it. I've not really gone near cider since. However I'm sure I'm old enough and wise enough to try it again - and thanks for the heads up on the sodium content!
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