SYSK Selects: How Salt Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A Roman senator once said, "Mankind can live without gold, but not without salt." Right he was. The human body needs salt so much we have developed a taste for it specifically. But too much salt can be toxic. Learn about salt's role in human history and how we get it from the Earth in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
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0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hello everybody.
0:32.1	Charles W. Chuck Bryant here on a lovely Saturday morning in Atlanta, Georgia.
0:36.4	We're going back in time to February 18th, 2014 to talk about salt.
0:40.4	Our episode, How Salt Works is one of my all-time favorites.
0:43.4	I love salt because I'm from the South.
0:45.8	Probably like a little too much.
0:47.2	You asked my doctor, but that salty, salty goodness on food just makes it all pop for me.
0:52.2	But has a really cool interesting backstory how you get salt, a harvest salt, and how salt
0:57.2	works on food.
0:58.2	Learn all about it right now.
1:02.8	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
1:12.5	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:14.0	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this is Stuff You Should Know, The
1:19.2	Podcast.
1:20.2	Oh yeah, Jerry's over there.
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