We undersalt our food in the west.

maybe you but not in my house

>>21427030 (OP)
When someone tells you to "add a pinch of salt", tell them to FUCK OFF

I almost died from eating literally no salt and acid for almost 6 months. Then I had an acidic sauce with a fish burger for the first time in my life and I had no idea why it felt like medicine until 2,5 years later. I thought it was the complex carbs in the potatoes that came with and the fish so I began making fish with potatoes a lot, and on the fish I unintentionally added lemon ("as you should"), not knowing it was the lemon that was good and not the fish.
I wasted so much money eating salmon twice a week.

Three months ago, after 2,5 years of this, I had a yoghurt+salt+water mix which is a traditional turkish drink and it tasted (again) like medicine, and that's when I learned about salt, the necessary electrolyte to literally function.

I began eating salt on the side whenever I felt depleted and I made threads about it on /ck/.

Three weeks ago I bought orange juice on a whim because the container looked interesting and I drank it on a whim one day when I coincidentally felt sluggish and the orange juice tasted (again) like medicine. My third eye opened up. I thought I had a vitamin-C deficiency but then the coincidental tomato gave me the same feeling. I thought about what they could have had in common and I arrived on the acidity. I thought I was getting enough from lemon but no way.

I chugged orange juice until it stopped feeling like medicine (ie I was replenished). I started adding orange juice, tomatoes, paprika, etc to my shakes (made threads about that too on /fit/). This was getting expensive, however. And finally, one day, I added white wine vinegar that I had laying around to some chicken I was cooking.

My God. Everything clicked. I ate the food without suffering a food coma for the first time in 5 years. My body digested the food in 2 hours and I got hungry again, and I could eat more.

I added white wine vinegar to my shake every morning, and I drank it all up in a matter of seconds. For the first time in my life, food was incredible.

>>21427030 (OP)
True. I always keep a salt shaker with me.
I remember it being different. But (((they))) all made people scared of salt.

>>21427068
>the coincidental tomato

>>21427068
It's been three weeks of perfect salt + acidity now and I've gained more muscle mass, don't feel sluggish from food, and feel absolutely incredible. Food FEELS better in my body, like actual medicine. No longer am I cooking expensive, complicated dishes just to "get the nutrients" I thought I was lacking. I can literally bake tendies with tomatoes tossed in spice and acid, and I feel insane.

There is not a single food tuber who talks about acid and often, they talk about "a pinch of salt". I learned how to cook from Italian pasta videos where the amateur seasoned the fucking water. I'm confident most young people aren't getting enough salt and acid, and they are suffering health problems from it. You can die from being depleted. Salt is essential for body function. Too little and your body can't function, your blood pressure will be off and even if you die, no one will suspect "salt deficiency".

This was so bad for me, I couldn't quench my thirst. I almost died from water poisoning. No one would have suspected "salt". They would've attributed it to the "IBS" diagnosis I got from a doctor.

Salt and acid = essential. Add it to every meal until your food FEELS great (taste is a byproduct, it'll taste a lot better too). Even if you are making pasta. Add a small splash of vinegar to the sauce, you'll tell the difference instantly, and you'll objectively feel better, too.

>>21427079
>with tomatoes
with potatoes*

>>21427068
>I almost died from eating literally no salt and acid for almost 6 months
What were you eating?

>>21427088
I would eat just to fill my quota and get something in me. I ate a lot of ramens (2–4 times a week), salads, sushi and hamburgers. None of these foods contain salt except hamburgers, but in modern joints (and where I bought), they've stopped salting the fries, you need to ask for salt on the side because "salt=bad", at least where I live.

I did not know the importance of salt and did not even consider this a problem. The whole world eats takeout, so why couldn't I live on salads ("VERY HEALTHY!!!!"), sushi ("FISH AND RICE, HOW IS IT NOT HEALTHY!?"), ramen ("VEGGIES, NOT AT ALL FAST FOOD!") and the occasional hamburger ("unhealthy")?

The diet *is* healthy, it just lacked salt and acid which ironically makes it very unhealthy despite everyone's ignorance.

When I got home, I would eat things like chicken (little salt) and potatoes (no salt), pasta (salt in the water and a pinch in the sauce). I was afraid of adding too much. Food tasted good enough and I didn't know adding a bit more salt would make it taste better. I'm confident this is the case for most. We don't know what we don't know. If you add two pinches of salt and the food tastes fine, why would you gamble and add another pinch? You don't know when you're about to make it inedible.

I learned how much salt was needed from becoming depleted and literally starting to eat it on the side. Now I salt *TO TASTE* and I taste the food I make. I don't make food just to quench my hunger.

>>21427099
Finally, people say "salt to taste" but they don't explain what it means. People don't know how the food is supposed to taste.

Salt until the food feels great in your mouth and under your tongue. Likewise acid.

>>21427099
>ramens
Where are you getting salt-less ramen?

>>21427105
Ramen is notorious for containing little salt. Its fat and umami. Where do you get salty ramens from?

>>21427131
>notorious for containing little salt
Ramen is usually high in sodium, easily getting above the daily recommended even depending on what you add.
Even forgoing the packet in an instant brand still has a good amount.

>>21427148
I wrote takeout, not instant ramen. Takeout ramen has little salt.

As a bonus, watch any "make your own pasta" video on youtube. No recipe ever calls for salt in the dough. Likewise, ramen noodles don't contain salt, especially if "fancy". I ate $15–$18 takeout ramen which I think is considered "fancy" enough. They were mostly fatty and umami, contained no salt.

Salads contain no salt. Sushi contains no salt. It's not difficult to remember the last takeout ramen you had that likewise contained no salt.

>>21427164
>Takeout ramen has little salt
Wherever you're going is serving you poorly seasoned ramen... ramen is supposed to be as salty as miso soup.

>>21427164
If you ate those noodles with any type of broth it had a decent amount of sodium, and by themselves would also still give you some, especially if they were takeout. Maybe a fruit salad would have given you 1 or two mg of salt but if you had any amount of dressing on your greens then you had salt. Sushi has some as well, I'm guessing it was fish? You've been eating salt bro.

>>21427164
>Salads contain no salt
Uhh are you eating undressed salads?

Salt is really only good directly on meat

>>21427102
>Finally, people say "salt to taste" but they don't explain what it means
Have you ever been checked for autism?

>>21427185
Salt and pepper on avocado is good as well

I confused the timeline anons. I was under the impression that the takeout I ate didn't contain sodium so I was depleted in sodium during that time. I was depleted in acid that time. I just searched and you're right that ramen is very heavy on sodium.

I don't remember how I fixed the phase where I only ate takeouts for 3 years.

I almost died from electrolyte imbalance due to what I assumed was sodium deficiency. I stopped eating simple carbs and began eating more complex carbs. It fixed it temporarily but it didn't fix the electrolyte imbalance. I fixed that by eating salt.

I don't even know anymore. All I know is that the discovery of acid 3 weeks ago has changed my life. I was more depleted in acid than I was in salt anyway, and I was very depleted in salt. The pH in my belly was insane. Drinking a splash of white wine vinegar changed my life and I have no issues anymore. I can eat a lot and feel incredible, without ever suffering from food coma, and I used to get that after every meal for almost half a decade (and almost died because of it)

Salt and acid. Eat it.

>>21427222
i was reading about this recently as i seemed to be craving fruits that were high in citric acid specifically and it made me feel better. look up the krebs cycle if you want to know about some stuff that acidic foods can contribute to.

>>21427222
ya know I'm starting to think you got some other shit going on m8. you should see a doctor

>>21427222
Ilaughed.
I'massumingthisisfake,becausenobodywouldbestupidenoughtojuststopconsumingallsaltandacidforYEARSwithoutconsultingadoctorfirst.Eitheryouhavemajormentalissuesandshouldbetalkingtoashrink,orsomethingweirdisgoingonwithyourbodybecauseyoushouldbedead.

>>21427222
Don't get me wrong, this wasn't some "gotcha", it's just better to narrow down what the actual causes might be in these situations. Wishing you the best.

Man I hope this thread is bait

>>21427255
Why are you so rude you nigger. I am being genuine here and you are being a fucking idiot. Apologize?
>>21427257
>durr consult a food retard
Literally who, in their right mind (in their RIGHT mind), would consult a food doctor before making a dietary change? What are you a fucking infant?

I did not CHOOSE to not eat salt. I just did not salt my food properly

This sub is giving me cancer but I will not relent.

Looking at shit like this rn (i'm OP)

>>21427222
>acid
Having a balanced ph level is all you need for your body to run optimally and food has a relatively minor effect on your blood ph because your kidneys regulate it to around 7.xx provided you dont have any kidney problems
Salt is understandable your body will go haywire if you dont at least get a minimum of 2000mg a day for normal brain and other body functions to run optimally

>>21427330
Your body regulates pH, yes, we're talking about balance as you eat.

Eating food with low acidity will force your body to work harder to break it down. Too much food with too little acidity will leave you bloated and you'll feel sluggish along with a whole host of other side effects. Adding acid to your food makes it more flavorful for a reason. Your body craves acidity and reacts positively to it when you eat it.

A regular shake for me in the morning (when I was working out) could be 1 dl oats, 1 rice cake, 60 g pb, 30 g whey, 20g honey, 10 g fat, 300 g wholemilk.

Notice something? This is a calorie bomb, something you would (and I did) find on YouTube, but it has 0 salt (no one tells you to add salt to the shake) and also 0 acidity. Adding berries increases acidity, but it's nowhere near enough. No fitnesstuber EVER tells you to add salt to the shake but no one DEFINITELY tells you to add acid. I started adding salt and the shake tasted (and went down) infinitely better. But the second I also added acid, now I drink these up in a matter of seconds and I feel like a billion bucks afterwards too.

Even after adding salt, I would feel bloated from the shake, sluggish and suffer from brain fog. After adding acid, my body works much more effectively in digesting it and breaking it down. pH is not affected when I drink and I just feel much better. I probably get way more nutrients out of it than I did before. The importance is objectively undeniable, this is why it's astonishing to me that this is not talked about. Not salt and absolutely not acid, despite being obligatory for any professional cooks. No pastatuber will ever tell you the importance of salt and acid. Not for flavor and absolutely not for health. Not them and no fitnesstuber either. I needed to almost die to find it out. And I hope I'm offering value to others on here too right now

>>21427317
can't tell if troll or schizo

>>21427365
He's right, though. He did not say he chose to stop consume, he said he did not know what he was doing. You're the schizo for making up things and bringing "food doctors" (you mean dietitians) into the mix. I'm him, btw.

>>21427030 (OP)
asians eat like 12g of salt a day, meanwhile spergs in america screech about how unhealthy it is when someone cooks up a ramen packet

>>21427483
Yanomamo GODS!

>>21427030 (OP)
*throws it over my shoulder*

>>21427789

>>21427164
>Takeout ramen has little salt.
Wat
I will just assume you're trolling at this point

>>21427030 (OP)
I ate 400% of the recommended daily sodium intake yesterday.

>>21427099
Are you a fuckin alien, dude? Not normal behavior in the slightest.

>>21427099
it sounds like you are mentally ill and you cured your mental illness with placebo

>>21427164
>sushi contains no salt
But it does, both through the seasoned vinegar (i.e. rice vinegar boiled with sugar and SALT until it dissolves) and the soy sauce you use to dip it in/brush it on.

>>21427079
Fucking dumbass how did you never hear about electrolytes? Never played football and took salt tablets? How do you get to be an adult buying your own groceries without knowing such a fundamental point about human health? You should've died just bc of how retarded you are.

>>21427222
>ramen is very heavy on sodium.
yeah no fucking shit retard

>>21427088
Cock most probably. Mentally ill faggots like these eat a lot of cock