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Salt first appeared in print in the Peng Tzao Kan Mu (2700 BC), a Chinese pharmacopoeia that differentiated forty types of salt.
It is to be believed that salt eating developed as humans learned how to keep animals and grow crops in the years after 10,000 BC. As the proportion of meat in their diet fell, people had to find salt for themselves and for their domesticated animals. Salt has another crucial property that made it important for the development of human society.
By 2000 BC, people knew that adding salt to food stopped it going off. Salt was used to preserve meat, fish and vegetables, and to create delicacies such as salted olives, which added variety to the diet.
In Assyria, friends denoted welcome and kinship with fellow diners as ‘a man of my salt’ a person trusted to share a valuable flavor enhancer.
Salt processing influenced North America’s food history before contact with Europeans. For over two thousand years, the Maya carried on salt trade that linked lower Central America with Mexico.
In the Caribbean the Arawak were so blessed with salt pans that they named the island of St. Martin ‘Sualouiga’ (Land of Salt).
Herodotus, the author of The Histories (450 BC), detailed a brining method that remained viable in the ancient Mediterranean for centuries. He explained how village fisherman stored catches of smelt and thunderfish in casks by smashing them with salt into a mealy constituency for forming doughy cakes for baking.
Until the 19th century, the most important use of salt was in food, though it was also used to treat leather, dye textiles and in making pottery. In the 19th century, chemists discovered ways of using salt to make a whole range of new chemicals. Manufacturers today claim there are more than 14,000 uses for salt.
This industrial demand for salt caused a growth in the industry and much more extensive deep mining and drilling of salt. Salt shortages effectively ended by the middle of the 19th century.
History of Salt
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History of Salt
Salt first appeared in print in the Peng Tzao Kan Mu (2700 BC), a Chinese pharmacopoeia that differentiated forty types of salt.
It is to be believed that salt eating developed as humans learned how to keep animals and grow crops in the years after 10,000 BC. As the proportion of meat in their diet fell, people had to find salt for themselves and for their domesticated animals. Salt has another crucial property that made it important for the development of human society.
By 2000 BC, people knew that adding salt to food stopped it going off. Salt was used to preserve meat, fish and vegetables, and to create delicacies such as salted olives, which added variety to the diet.
In Assyria, friends denoted welcome and kinship with fellow diners as ‘a man of my salt’ a person trusted to share a valuable flavor enhancer.
Salt processing influenced North America’s food history before contact with Europeans. For over two thousand years, the Maya carried on salt trade that linked lower Central America with Mexico.
In the Caribbean the Arawak were so blessed with salt pans that they named the island of St. Martin ‘Sualouiga’ (Land of Salt).
Herodotus, the author of The Histories (450 BC), detailed a brining method that remained viable in the ancient Mediterranean for centuries. He explained how village fisherman stored catches of smelt and thunderfish in casks by smashing them with salt into a mealy constituency for forming doughy cakes for baking.
Until the 19th century, the most important use of salt was in food, though it was also used to treat leather, dye textiles and in making pottery. In the 19th century, chemists discovered ways of using salt to make a whole range of new chemicals. Manufacturers today claim there are more than 14,000 uses for salt.
This industrial demand for salt caused a growth in the industry and much more extensive deep mining and drilling of salt. Salt shortages effectively ended by the middle of the 19th century.
History of Salt
- Sugar Processing During Ancient Time
The processing of sugar products was one of the first extensive agro-industrial operations in the world. In ancient and early medieval times, the Mediterranean did not know sugar; sweetening came from honey and fruit juices. The sugarcane itself...
- High Pressure Food Processing In History
High pressure processing is a technique with the potential to preserve food without the use of the high temperature normally employed in conventional thermal processing and therefore with considerable retention of quality attributes. Studies of the effects...
- History Of Glass Container
Glass containers were first produced several thousand years ago in ancient Egypt and have been in continues use throughout the ages since. It is known that at least 6000 years ago – long before the man had learned to smelt iron – man knew how to make...
- Hevesy, George Charles Von (1885-1966)
The son of a wealthy industrialist, Hevesy was educated at the University of Freiburg, where he obtained his PhD in 1908. Thereafter, in a career much interrupted by war and politics, Hevesy worked in seven different countries. After brief periods in...
- History Of Extruder In Food Industry
Extrusion cooking is used today to process a variety of foods and feeds. Ingredients in a powder or granular form are added to the extruder at the feed end, then transported along the length of the barrel by one or two screws. The single screw as an ‘extrusion...