Don't we all love eating hot French fries. Mmmm…. Just thinking of it makes you recall their taste. Doesn't it? Can you imagine what they would taste like if we left out one ingredient? Just one ingredient less shouldn't make much of a difference you may think. But what if the ingredient left out is salt? Oh no, not without salt, then it wouldn't be worth biting into would it? As, regardless of whatever other goodies have gone into making it, lack of salt can kill the taste. And what would an excess amount of salt do to your French fries? Even that would spoil them wouldn't it? Let us delve into the history of this very important ingredient of so many yummy dishes.

Salt has been around for a long, long time. And it has been used by humans for not just cooking but also for preserving food and curing animal skin. It is found in its natural form as a white crystalline solid, dissolved in seawater. It is also found as rock salt in large deposits and salt domes.