Posted: 2/24/2012 12:41:33 PM EDT
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How much salt does a person need per day.
I am not looking for the FDA sodium restriction guidelines answer, but in a survivial situation- how much should you have available per person per day? FWIW- i would NOT be stocking up on iodized/table salt- but buying bulk "Real Salt" (similar to himalayan and celtic) from a deposite in Redmond, Utah. |
| there is no fixed answer to your question. If you're exerting yourself and sweating, you'll need to replace the salt loss in sweat. But the extent needed from pure salt it dependent on your diet. If you're eating prepared food, no need since they have high sodium content. If you were just laying in your villa where it is 76 degrees, you wouldn't need much. |
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Thanks for all the info- I'm going to check out the survivalblog article- i hadn't read that.
We're not exactly ready to be storing 100s of lbs of salt, i'm just trying to get together enough for one year. I've had a 25lb bag that's not even half empty (with a family of 4 adults and high consumption) for over a year, but that's not taking in to consideration use for preserving. ::sigh::: there are never easy answers. I thought that maybe we use about 1t/day/person... this was after I realized that 1T was actually quite a bit of salt in one day. Now, not so sure how to calculate in use for preserving with that. |
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I have seen figures of from one pound per year to one pound per month per person. One pound per year suggests little exercise, transportation via motor vehicle, use of power tools for work, eating commercially produced foods that already have salt added to them, and air conditioning during the summer months. One pound per month suggests lots of exercise, transportation by shank's mare or bicycle, hand tools and physical labor, eating foods fresh from the garden or farm, and no air conditioning.
Neither figure takes other uses of salt into account. Preserving your own foods, curing hides, brushing teeth without toothpaste, and use as a barter good all suggest higher salt usage amounts. |
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How much salt does a person need per day. I am not looking for the FDA sodium restriction guidelines answer, but in a survivial situation- how much should you have available per person per day? FWIW- i would NOT be stocking up on iodized/table salt- but buying bulk "Real Salt" (similar to himalayan and celtic) from a deposite in Redmond, Utah. Realsalt, the brand, is one of the best tasting salts I've had. Much better than the more expensive Hawaiian Red, French Gray, etc. but I buy this for everyday cooking, and I buy the 25lb bags of table salt from Costco for food storage. It's $3.50 a bag. I also stock up on kosher salt for when I do certain things such as curing bacon, etc. |
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"I also stock up on kosher salt for when I do certain things such as curing bacon, etc. Boy that sure isn't Kosher... The end product sure isn't but damn is it good.  You can't cure food with iodized salt.
Wait...wut? http://www.mortonsalt.com/faqs/food-salt-faqs Kosher salt is salt without iodide or anti-caking additive. Iodized salt has iodide and anti-caking additives. It is still salt. It is recommended to not use it for canning because it can possibly make the water cloudy, but that is aesthetic, nothing more. TRG |
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salt is fairly cheap, that being said I would stock several hundred pounds both for consumption and you also may want to salt cure meat or fish. this, also store pickling salt. J- Pickling salt is just salt without the anti-caking additive. It is salt. It is used for pickling because it won't make the solution cloudy when the calcium silicate percolates out. Salt has been used by humans for tens of thousands of years. It has been used as a preservative after being percolated out of evaporated salt marsh water was boiled or left to stand in the sun. Impurities in the production of salt did not prevent it from working as a pickling/preservative. Salt does not need to be 'pure' to work its magic on food preservation. TRG |