Status Updates From Salt: The history of the wo...

wooow, the Chinese actually harvested salt crystals that dried in the summer heat from a lake—Lake Yuncheng—and would even fight for control over the lake

Learned a lot about the history of salt in ancient Chinese civilization 🤓

huh, so odd that agricultural tribes (not hunting tribes) would trade for salt to add it to their diet—since a high vegetable diet is high in potassium and low in sodium chloride. They subconsciously knew they needed more salt in their diet as compared to other tribes and instinctively added it. WILDDD