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By the process of titration. Basically, you pour about of 100ml of distilled water to a beaker through your desired quantity of food. For example, you put some chips on top of the beaker so they wouldn't leak in there, and just pour water through it so the salt, which is water soluble, gets drained to a beaker with out the chips but with the water. Then...
1. Prepare 100ml of solution with salt in it (previously described as extracting salts from foods into distilled water.)
2. Prepare solution of silver nitrate of concentration 0.2mol and add it into a burette.
3. Pour 10ml of salty solution into a beaker and add 10 drops of potassium chromate.
4. Slowly add silver nitrate onto the salty solution from the burette and measure how much silver nitrate is required to make the solution reddish.

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