Word: flavorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, if the total exceeds 35 mg. The bill is now before a House health subcommittee chaired by California's Henry Waxman. It has 79 co-sponsors in the House, but Gore is worried about its future. Says he: "Salt is the cheapest flavor enhancer. There is an enormous competitive advantage to loading food with salt and not telling people about it." Waxman is worried for the same reason: "We are having difficulty getting the votes to pass this legislation because of industry pressure...
...people to adjust to life with less salt. After making the break, many prefer lower-salt foods. Says Ardelle Tuma, vice president of Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott department stores: "I found that unsalted butter has a fantastic taste all its own, and vegetables have a finer, purer flavor without salt." The reason may be that a high-salt diet blunts the natural ability to perceive salt, while cutting back makes the palate more sensitive. Research by Berkeley Food Sciolist Angela Little has led her to believe that "high intake of salt produces a salty background in the saliva...
...only did salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it made a good antiseptic, which is why the Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health. Of all the roads that led to Rome, one of the busiest was the Via Salaria, the salt route, over which Roman soldiers marched and merchants drove oxcarts full of the precious crystals up the Tiber from the salt pans at Ostia. A soldier's pay-consisting in part of salt-came to be known as solarium argentum, from which we derive the word...
...convinced that the taste of salt masks the natural flavor of foods-a lifelong coverup. If you wish to wean your taste buds away from salt, the object is to find other flavors that will distract your palate...
...French bread without salt. The eggs (one a week) I scramble, poach or otherwise cook without salt. They are delectable. The potatoes (with broiled or steamed fresh fish, for example) are incredibly good. And the bread is irresistible. Incidentally, such things as bread and no-salt cereals improve in flavor and texture if baked briefly in the oven...