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Wait until you see “lite Vodka” which is just Vodka watered down to 40 proof and sold at the same price.
My wife bought that from a local distillery, she kept telling me “but it’s low calories”. It was such garbage.
Well that explains at least one of the divorces. Was that Butler or Kelly?
i’ve seen salt with high fructose corn syrup added to it… so technically less salt?
That is one product I would expect in an American supermarket. …
Good product for when you’re on furosemide, bad product for spironolactone.
As someone who naturally craves lots of salt spiro was rough. About 5 years of constant cravings for a level of salt most people around me couldn’t handle
The fun part of that one is it’s potassium sparing. So you start using this stuff while taking that medication you’ll get hyperkalemia. Lasix, on the other hand, makes you piss out all your potassium.
Would be cool to find out it’s 50% sodium chloride and 50% chloride.
Open the box to eternal peace.
50% sodium chloride and 50% potassium chloride
So… is it just half full? Or is just it mostly chloride? 🤔
Potassium chloride is the other half. I mean, sure, if you need to limit your sodium intake, this is one way to do it, but maybe just put less salt in your food?
Use less salt! Use MSG! Food cocaine!
Fuy-yuh!
Does potassium chloride have a salty flavor, or is this product actually less salty tasting?
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJh9yTIBY48 for potassium chloride as well as the other alkaline metals.
I don’t understand this post. Salt doesn’t mean sodium. NaCl and KCl are both salts, and this is a 50/50 blend with less sodium (Na) for the people who need/want that. Am I missing something?
What you’re missing is illiteracy.
50% table salt
50% bath salt
Oh thanks. My mom buys that and I never understood what is was 😂
Sir that’s too many facts for this joke.
No, no let’m cook. Everyone knows jokes are funnier after you explain them.
The point is that there is no joke in here to begin with
Right. I have difficulty suspending disbelief so sometimes jokes like this just confuse me.
I get that too sometimes.
you’re not missing anything, you paid attention in chemistry.
I think you’re exactly right
Could also be amphetamine salts.
Now we’re cooking!
So much worse for people with Potasium limitations? Like dialysis patients.
Yes, usually such people are advised by their doctors to avoid such ingredients.
Hopefully…
They could just get the normal salt, or no salt at all.
The part you’re missing is that potassium chloride used to be used in the lethal injection. Somehow it still has a lower LD50 than sodium chloride.
I would be surprised if water isn’t used in lethal injections.
How was that alluded to in the OP? Eating it isn’t the same as injecting it. It’s a normal ingredient in electrolyte drinks and rehydration salts. It’s also prescribed for hypokalemia.
Also yes hyperkalemia is really effective at killing as is hypernatremia. This is not only known but also evolved around. Your body works pretty hard to ensure you don’t ingest so much of either ion that you develop these conditions.
Well, let’s hope the doctor doesn’t prescribe enough, that their hypokalemia develops into hyperkalemia.
It’s what plants crave
“Pure sodium”
OP is as deranged as Morton.
Being somebody who has to watch their sodium intake due to heart health concerns I would say that Morton is not at all deranged in creating this especially considering I’ve got a container of it sitting on my spice rack right now.
Though it should be noted I do my best not to think about the fact that KCL is used in lethal injections. 😒 I just thank the gods I don’t have any ulcers.
would say that Morton is not at all deranged in creating this especially considering I’ve got a container of it sitting on my spice rack right now.
It has an additional use, too.
The non-“salt” ingredient here, potassium chloride, is the “harder to find” ingredient in a simple four ingredient rehydration solution.
The other ingredients are sodium chloride, sugar, and water.
So equal parts this and sugar in a glass of water and you’ve got yourself the world health organization’s answer to dehydration.
It’s more the pure sodium part. Stop, drop, and roll would be a lot more important if it was pure sodium.
Yes LoL, I referenced that in a joke further down the post. 💥😂
Potassium is totally normal and required by the body. It’s actually hard to get the RDA of potassium.
It’s just that too much stops your heart.
It’s also important to note that unless you’re on medication that prevents your body from releasing it (such as spironolactone) it’s extremely hard to od on it. Your body can release it in the urine if you have a bit too much
“Morton”
The ‘t’ is silent
Not at all the statement of a moron: in colloquial usage yeah, salt is sodium chloride, but in in a chemistry setting it is not just sodium chloride. In this case it probably has potassium chloride — a sodium-free salt.
Pure sodium you say? that will surely give your dishes an extra kick
The government doesn’t want you to know that you can pair that with a nice glass of pure chloride
Less sodium means more chloride for me!
Yeah but it says right on the front that it’s half potassium chloride and half sodium chloride.
It’d be funnier if the package was just half empty
Let me introduce you to the rapid ramen cooker, a microwaveable tray that claims to make ramen with only half the regular amount of sodium.
You know how the cooker enables this?
You add half the flavor packet.
Can’t make this shit up.
Nothing better than selling a single-purpose bit of plastic intended to go into the microwave and boil water that is functionally a replacement for a bowl that you presumably already have that expressly states that you can only use it for up to 5 years.
Yeah it’s an absolute travesty. At least it seems people have gone the opposite way and it looks like folks use it as a bowl, so there’s that.
😂 absolute gold
I’ve always done this then, use the leftover flavor pack (salt) for seasoning a more homemade meal.
I have so many leftover packets because I always make mine with better than bullion, hoisin sauce, and chili flakes.
Better than bullion ftw.
Soooo good!
It’d be illegal as as those statements are regulated to a standard serving. Except for net product amount.
Well I’m glad they used KCl, I thought this was going to be a container half-full of chlorine–concerning, if you intend to put it on your food.
Half the sodium, double the chloride! Perfection 👌
Quadruple the reactivity!
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(I am not a chemist, and I am not your chemist. These statements should not be construed as chemistry advice.)
I can have my own chemist? I can keep them?
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We have chemist at home
Chemist at home:
Should have posted this one
I mean technically… At least half of the elemental construction of both of those ingredients is chlorine… So… Technically it is.
By weight or by molarity?
Molarity.
If my quick calculations are right it’s 53% chlorine ions by weight
Chloride, not chlorine
I think they meant chlorine, as in Cl2 (g). Certainly not edible, thus the joke.
Chloride is the ionic form
Right, and that’s the form it’s in in both NaCl and KCl
Correct and that was the supposed joke. Instead of chloride, the anion, which would occur in some form of a salt, the container would contain half NaCl and the other half just chlorine gas, Cl2. Thereby making the statement (50% less sodium) technically true. (Disregard the pressure you would need to put the same molar amount of gas into the volume of a solid)
I’m proud to report that my chemistry is just barely good enough to follow this comment. 😂
We Dutch call it “Kalium zout” or Low Sodium Salt. The brand I buy is iodized and has 70% less natrium. And yeah, it is for health reasons, like heart condition, high blood pressure and other medical ailments, or people who want to eat less salt in their diets.
Anyway, what you are looking at is 100% salt and original op (the one on xitter) is an idiot.
For englishers: Kalium (K) is potassium and Natrium (Na) is sodium.
I always mix those up because we also use Kalij and Natrij for K and Na and potassium and sodium is just off. At least sodium I can get from sodium bicarbonate.
Yes you are absolutely right, thank you for elaboration.
While this uses potassium chloride to cut down on sodium, does a mix of sodium chloride and MSG have the same effect? MSG has sodium, but it looks like not much per unit weight.
I’m guessing no? You’re probably still using around the same amount of sodium.
Some studies have shown that reducing sodium salt intake by replacing it with potassium can help reduce blood pressure, so that’s why this exists (or at least why it has some credibility).
Of course, I am not a doctor, so take this all with a grain of salt 😅.
Yeah, I’ve been looking into this for that exact reason. It does seem medically beneficial to replace an appreciable portion of your sodium with potassium, for those of us with high blood pressure.
However I don’t really see the point of this. Maybe there are some people who add a lot of salt to stuff, but I believe most of us consume excess sodium through processed and restaurant food. Added salt is not enough of overall sodium intake to matter. It’s much more important to watch the sodium content in your food choices, notably eat less processed food
The thing about these salt substitutes is that more studies are needed, just because there’s few of them. The evidence is very promising though, and people switching to these substitutes has been shown to distinctly lower blood pressure, and appears to make a difference for all-cause mortality.
Experts and industry leaders are looking into incorporating added potassium salt into their foods, so it’s probably only a matter of time before virtually everything that everyone eats will have lower sodium and higher potassium.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.123.21343
Now that would be a hugely welcome change
If your doctor asks you to reduce salt intake to 50% and everything you eat you make yourself, the equation is simple - use this product.
If you get most of your salt intake from restaurant and processed foods… this will only make a minor improvement.
Or maybe it’s just me not using much added salt. I do use it when a recipe calls for it or it seems important (like with bread), but it takes several years to work through a canister of salt.
I’ve found that using good spices or fresh herbs make a huge difference over using more salt to perk up weak spices. And I’ve found that many cheap spices are mostly salt, but better spices are more of the intended flavor
I have tried to cut out processed food, partly for this reason. However even once a week of eating out or processed food (or soy sauce) totally dwarfs anything I intentionally add
Oh bread salt is totally for taste. The yeast doesn’t like it. Shit even the sugar in bread recipes isn’t important. If you have enough time all you really need to make bread is water, flour, and an oven. Of course said bread will taste like shit.
I think it’s funny how much they emphasize how important salt is then include Tuscan bread recipes. Not having salt changes how you proof it because it changes yeast activity, but you absolutely do not need it to make bread. Heat from the oven is just as fine for stopping over proofing.
Kinda embarrassing for the original poster on Twitter
As stated right there on the label, some of the NaCl has been replaced with
taster’s choiceKCl. So it was never pure sodium to begin with, due to all that pesky chlorine and now about half of the Na has been replaced with Potassium.Imagine making pasta and salting the water with pure sodium. There’s a reason they don’t sell that in the supermarket.
Big badaboom!
Multi-pass
ba-da-boom
That’s how you become a meat popsicle.
Don’t tell me what I can and cannot do! I like my pasta with a little danger and a dash of kaboom!
I tried adding pure sodium to some soup once. It did not end well. 💣💥😬
It’s not the best choice, it’s Spacer’s Choice!
Fyi it’s chloride, not chlorine, but otherwise spot on
So uh, what do you think the Cl in NaCl stands for?
I had to read this like 24 times to make sure I didn’t miss anything, but I’m 98% certain you’re correct. When referring to the individual components it should be chlorine not chloride. I’m not a chemical doctor, but this is my understanding.
Horrible at chemistry, but I’m 98% sure it is chloride - the chlorine is present as an anion, and as such is called chloride. Even if you refer to it as an individual component, you still observe Cl-, not Cl (or rather Cl2).
No, the element is chlorine. Chloride denotes a compound or molecule containing a chlorine ion, or a compound with a non-charged chlorine atom bonded.
This whole thread is very pedantic but in chemistry when someone refers to chlorine, they are usually referring to Cl2. I think in IUPAC naming chloride is reserved for for ions. Like dichloromethane (IUPAC) and methylene chloride (also common name).
I have a phd in chemistry. You are correct. The whole thread is pedantic garbage.
Now I am confused. Mind bearing with me for a sec?
I was referring to the chlorine present in NaCl, that should in fact be chloride due to it’s anionic nature, should it not? I mean sure it’s pedantic, but I’d still like to know where I went wrong with that thought :D .
Does it still work against demons and spirits?
Imagine getting murdered by faeries because you used low-salt salt for your magic circle like an idiot.
Yes but you have to use twice as much.
This demon is trying to trick you into spending twice as much on summoning salt because they have stock in the company!
Also it won’t work and demons will eat your ass in a non-consensual way, salt is used as a symbol of purity and the additives/mixture by definition make it non-pure (salt).
No, the question really is whether potassium chloride by itself would work, also being pure (potassium) salt.
Unless you just want the 9 salt pictures
Yep! Any kind of powder will work. Salt, sugar, cocaine, whatever.
That’s just propoganda by big demons. They want to you to buy salt so they can season you. Why do you think people say garlic will repel vampires. Sheple, all are sheple. That’s just vampire propoganda.
