You don't see as many foods that are preserved by the salt process as you once did. Doctors and health professionals have linked high sodium intake to be a major cause in high blood pressure. Prior to this, meats were commonly salt cured. You can still purchase salt tack, salt pork (fat back), salted kippers (little fish), and salt cured hams in some places.
Salt is used to preserve food along with adding taste.
On meat, salt can preserve food.
people needed salt to stay alive and to preserve their food people needed salt to stay alive and to preserve their food
no they didn't have salt
Salt was the only thing they had to preserve food.
They stuffed the food with salt which would let it dry out and that's how they would preserve it.
To preserve the food
vinegar (when pickling), salt . . .
salt
Pork and Fish
So it wont go of
the salt kills bacteria that spoils the food