What is salt? Salt is used as a condiment or ingredient. It brightens food flavors and facilitates a balance between sweetness and acidity by decreasing the sourness of acid and increasing the sweetness of sugar.
Salt is also act as a natural preservative which inhibits the growth of molds and bacteria. It literally pulls the life-sustaining moisture from those harmful bodies, making them unable to grow or reproduce.
Archaeologist study shows that salt eating developed as humans learned how to keep animals and grow crops in the years after 10,000 BC. As the proportion of meat in their diet fell, people had to find salt for themselves and for their domesticated animals.
Salt has another crucial property that made it important for the development of human society. By 2000 BC, people knew that adding salt to food stopped it going off.
Salt was used to preserve meat, fish and vegetables, and to create delicacies such as salted olives, which added variety to the diet.
The buying and selling of salt became one of the most important trading activities in the world.
One of the most important food ingredients: Salt
