Re: Morphological evidence of marine adaptations in human kidneys

r norman:
>Mario Petrinovich:
>> I don't understand why it would be so good to put salt on food.
>> This is the deal. As I said, it alters the taste of food. If you
>> put
>>salt on your food, then your food is salty. I said, why don't you put salt
>>on your fruits. Doesn't it have better taste being salty? You have the
>>means to put salt on your fruits, and STILL you don't do it.
>
> Your own personal experience with salt seems to be the exception among
> the human species. The general tendency is to eat salt, to add salt
> to food, and to select salty foods. That is an adaptation to
> freshwater existence -- marine mammals tend to avoid salt.

Why?

> As to fruits, you have already been told that many people DO add salt
> to fruit. I have just looked in a cookbook and found that a
> significant number of fruit-based desserts include salt in the recipe
> -- citrus jellos (gelatines) and sauces, plum pudding, even fruit
> favored ice cream! Then, of course, salt is an almost universal
> ingredient in recipes based on tomato, pepper, eggplant, squash and
> many other items all of which are fruits!

Hm, what is fruit? Tomato? Pepper? I don't understand the word of
what you are saying. It must be that I am stupid. -- Mario


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