NoSalt Original Sodium-Free Salt Alternative, 11 oz

Full strength left a ‘different’ salty taste in my mouth, so I mixed it half and half with table salt. This was successful, giving real salt flavor with no discernable difference from 100% table salt. Also, I used less of the mixture than I would have using 100% salt. Definitely pleased with the product so far. The acid test was on my daily popcorn…….success!

First let me say, I really like salty foods. Now that I am older, hypertension is starting to show up when they take my blood pressure while I am at the doctor's office. Of course, the recommendation was to limit my intake of salt, specifically sodium. Now sodium is an essential electrolyte which made me want to learn how much was my intake and how much should I lower my intake too. Making a long story short, I also stumbled across learning from the US RDA that I was fairly deficient in potassium, another essential electrolyte, by about 50% while my sodium intake was 3-5 times greater than the US RDA. Coincidentally, while not only being far off balance in my intake of these 2 essential electrolytes, but while sodium can increase hypertension, potassium can decrease it. No wonder my hypertension was getting so out of control... my dietary intake of these essential electrolytes were seriously off balance. One of my initial steps to reverse that situation was to convert to "No Salt". First let me say, my main effort to overcome my potassium deficiency is to strive to get my potassium levels up through learning to eat foods that are high in potassium, not by salting more and more with potassium chloride. This review is about this potassium chloride product, which is one form of a salt product, and how it helped me eliminate sodium chloride (regular table salt) and has nothing to do with increasing or decreasing my overall salt intake. When I first started to use "No Salt" to replace regular table salt, I had to use a little at a time at first because I could really taste the metal (potassium) and I wasn't surprised by that because I suspect I am a "supertaster" (feel free to look up that term, it's a real thing). After reading that many other countries use potassium chloride as their table salt while the U.S. uses sodium chloride as our table salt, I was hoping it was only a matter of time that I would get used to "No Salt" which is based on potassium chloride. To my utter delight, that has happened. It took about 2 months and persistence is key, but now I no longer notice the a metal taste from the potassium! (In the beginning I used to make the mistake of substituting equal amounts of "No Salt" to what I would normally use with regular table salt and I was overwhelming the food with the metal taste of the potassium. Don't make this mistake :-) ) If you are like me and need to lower (not eliminate) your sodium intake, I highly recommend "No Salt" and start out slowly. If you don't taste any metal taste, then start salting it to what you like. If you are like me, then just ease into it and eventually, you will not notice any metal tastes in your food. Being patient and waiting the 2 months (hopefully less) is well worth it to achieve the substitution from table (sodium chloride) salt to "No Salt" (potassium chloride salt). I use this all the time now when salting regardless of what I am salting, from cooking such as in boiling water for making pastas and such to directly salting the food I am about to eat.

Great salt taste for a salt alternative

For use as potassium supplement in hydration or electrolyte mixes for running/lifting this product is great. When trying to make use of it as salt supplement, when cooking it’s quite repulsive.

Great salt substitute! You need very little.

Great item love the size no clumping

I ordered this bc I was told I needed to lower my salt intake due to blood pressure issues. I have always been a salty snack girl so for me hearing this news was just dreadful! A nurse recommended this to me as a great salt substitute. I tried it with high hopes this would be the substitute I was looking for! Nope this tastes terrible and nothing like real salt! The onething I loved, eggs in the morning, tasted awful. I tried it on a few other things and just couldn't stomach it. I winded up just switching to kosher salt- less sodium intake and got used to using other seasonings such as garlic and onion powder.

It tastes like the right KCl and so on, but the "salt shaker holes" in the top of the container are basically 10 times the diameter they should be, and 100 times the surface area to be useful. If you try to shake potassium chloride onto your food using this container as an applicator, you will saturate and way way oversalt it. How can something so easily fixed and so obviously wrong be done to a product??? It's a simple thing, but it basically makes the product useless as is. You need to buy another product to be able to apply this salt substitute!

I’ve cut out salt from my diet - this stuff is awesome on food (gives it a bit of a salty zing), but it tastes like crap if you just taste it by itself (as in, put some in your hand and lick it). I dunno how something can taste so crappy on its own, but taste so good when put on food. I guess real salt on its own tastes kinda crappy too though.

I bought this product as I had heard that it tastes exactly like salt. Unfortunately , this is not true for me. It has very strange " taste" and it remains my mouth after eating. Or to be accurate, it cause strange feeling in mouth. I can't tolerate with this feeling and will toss away the product sadly. It may work with others but not for me.

Great

This tastes just fine and does the trick to replace salt. No complaints there, however, some people are using these to make supplements. I purchased this for that reason, but decided against it after carefully reading the labeI. I suppose it's okay to do this? but this is not pure potassium. There are additives, and I'm not sure how one's body would react to large quantities of these additives. Check yoself before you wreck yoself.

The flavour is so close to the taste of salt, I have gotten so I can't really taste the difference. It is a bit pricey though. I'm glad I don't have to buy it too often.