Is there any scientific basis for the ancients to replace salt with spicy ?

In ancient times, Guizhou did not produce salt. Although salt is produced in nearby Sichuan and Chongqing, it is difficult to transport it due to inconvenient transportation. Salt has become a luxury in Guizhou.

After chili peppers were introduced to Guizhou, they were first used as ornamental plants, and later found that they could greatly increase the flavor of food as a condiment, and chili peppers were also very popular in Guizhou. Later, it was discovered that it reduced the need for salt, so there is a saying that "spicy salt is a substitute for salt".

Although salt appears in our daily life as a condiment, it is an essential nutrient for the human body. But salt is so cheap and readily available to modern people that they no longer need to think about economic factors. As a result, too much salt can become a huge health burden – too much salt can lead to high blood pressure and have a negative impact on the cardiovascular system.

adverse health effects.

"Less salt" has becomeEat a healthy dietconsensus. However, the direct effect of salt is saltiness. If the salt is reduced, the taste of the food is not enough.

"Mechanical salt reduction", such as the so-called "salt limiting spoon", essentially comes at the expense of taste – this "forced salt reduction" approach doesn't make much sense when most people can't reduce their demand for saltiness.

In the food industry, the pursuit is "salt reduction without flavor enhancement". That is, reduce salt (or sodium) intake, but not the flavor of the food. One of them is to increase the intensity of the saltiness and reduce the need for salt.

In the past, people had to substitute spicy food for salt because salt was too expensive. Now it has become a healthy diet.

Why does spicy replace salt? December 2017, Third Military Medical University.

and other units in "High Blood Pressure".

A research report was published in the journal and a relatively complete exploration was made. Interestingly, the preference for savory foods was inversely correlated with the preference for spicy foods. In the statistical analysis with spicy food preference as the independent variable, after excluding the influence of confounding factors, the group with the most spicy food intake had less salt intake per day than the group with the least food preference, and the corresponding systolic blood pressure was reduced.

and diastolic blood pressure decreased by 4 mHg, respectively.

"Replacing salt with spicy" is purely a self-righteous "truth" that some people find for some phenomena! In particular, the two and a half provinces along the southeast coast, which relied on policy support, only "broke out" in the past 40 years and thought they had a sense of superiority. You eat spicy food because you are poor; We don't eat spicy food because we are "rich".

Chili pepper, native to the Americas, was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, and was first cultivated only as an ornamental value (just like raising flowers), and was popularized in Hunan, Guizhou and other provinces for less than 300 years; It has been popularized in Sichuan for less than 200 years. It can be seen that its history is short!

Not only can chili peppers not replace salt, but they also cost salt, and none of the dishes containing chili peppers are less salt!

The salt required to make chili sauce generally needs to reach at least 1 10 or more by the weight of chili peppers to ensure that it does not deteriorate and tastes! You must know that bacon is usually only 1 33 (1 catty of meat and 3 coins of salt) [even so, many people even think that bacon with this amount of salt is salty].

In the 60th year of Kangxi (1721), the "Sizhou Mansion Chronicles" contained "sea pepper, commonly known as spicy fire, soil seedlings are used to replace salt". - This sentence is a classic that many people regard as historical evidence. How many people really know what it means?!

However, what it really means is that at that time, the Miao people in Guizhou used salted sea pepper for rice. Because it itself is salted, salt is no longer put in the meal (it is the same as eating bacon without salt, according to their logic, will some people still say "bacon" instead of salt?) ）。

Throughout the dynasties, salt was a government monopoly, a necessity, not a luxury, and the unaffordability of salt was almost non-existent (it was a matter of social unrest). "So poor that he can't even afford to eat salt", just an adjective.

As an aside, whether you eat spicy food or not has nothing to do with being rich or poor, it has nothing to do with being wet or cold. There are also non-spicy foods in more humid and cold places, and spicy foods in hotter places.

Whether to eat spicy or not is just a habit of a place and some people, nothing more!!

In ancient times, salt was a nutrient that was essential for human metabolism at a very low production cost, and thus became an important tax warehouse for the imperial court, similar to today's tobacco.

It is completely whimsical for an anonymous person to use the heavy salt in today's chili sauce to forcibly prove the cost of salt in ancient spicy dishes.

In ancient times, there were famous smugglers who rebelled, but I have never heard of the existence of smuggling pepper dealers. The smuggled salt dealers took advantage of the huge difference between official salt and private salt to obtain huge profits as the capital for the uprising. Just by the grade of that anonymous person, in ancient times, if you wanted to eat salt well, the smugglers looked down on you.

I think he may be trying to enhance the flavor of the dish, and there is no scientific basis for it.

I don't think there's any scientific basis for it, maybe it's just that they think they can detox.

The main reason for how she does it is to improve the taste of the dish, and there should be a certain basis.

I think chili peppers are rich in vitamins and may be much healthier than salt.