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Examples of table salt in a Sentence
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Gupta, who was not involved in the study, said the salt substitute helped by lowering the amount of table salt, sodium chloride, consumed daily and adding in potassium.
—Linda Carroll, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
Potassium chloride, which combines the essential supplement potassium with chloride, tastes and acts like table salt without adding harmful sodium to the diet.
—Linda Carroll, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
Sodium chloride – chlorine plus sodium – is table salt.
—Emma Penrod, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
This power comes from the way salt dissolves in water and breaks down into ions: in the case of simple rock salt, which is a rawer, less pure version of table salt, each molecule splits into one ion each of sodium and chloride.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that people 14 and older consume less than 2,300 mg of sodium, or one teaspoon of table salt, per day.2
Adding a pinch of salt to your drinking water might not seem like much, but this can add up quickly, according to Bruning.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2023
Compared to table salt, sea salt is going to contain more trace minerals because the minerals won’t be stripped away.
—Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
And, since most of us get enough iodine already from eating fish, dairy, and iodized table salt, this is a worthwhile concern.
—Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
Cutting out 2,200 mg of sodium each day—equal to about one teaspoon of table salt—can lower blood pressure as good as medication for high blood pressure.
—Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Health, 23 Nov. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1670, in the meaning defined above
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“Table salt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table%20salt. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.
Kids Definition
table salt
noun
: salt for use on food and in cooking
Medical Definition
table salt
noun
: salt and especially sodium chloride refined for use at the table and in cooking
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