Archaeological evidence suggests that humans first started using salt to brine, pickle, and preserve food as far back as 6,000BC. We have developed a taste for it in the millennia since then, and now ...

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I was recently having lunch with a couple friends and their 7-year-old and we ordered a giant soft pretzel with beer cheese. As we mindlessly broke off pieces of the pretzel during our chatter, I ...

While most experts recommend cutting down on salt, some detractors question whether most people really need to be making their meals blander. We have a complicated relationship with salt. Our bodies ...