Does eating pepper cancel out the effect of salt?!
I cannot find any evidence to support that pepper absorbs salt, so if anyone knows whether it does or not can you please tell me?
Answers: My husband and i were eating at mcdonald's and he put salt on his hamburger. I told him to be careful, because overconsumption of salt can lead to high blood pressure, so he put pepper on his burger too. Then he told me that he was taught that salt is canceled out by pepper, as pepper absorbs the salt and causes it to pass thru your stomach. I learned in chemistry that the body cannot absorb pepper, thus it passes thru the gallbladder and into the intestines to be excreted, whereas salt enters the bloodstream.
I cannot find any evidence to support that pepper absorbs salt, so if anyone knows whether it does or not can you please tell me?
Your husband is very smart. He was smart enough to know if he said this garbage you would shut up. Kudos to him for thinking on his feet.
Salt is bad for you. Pepper and other spices do not 'cancel' out the negative effects of overconsumption of salt.
By the way, in a recent study, doctors found that eating an 1/8 of a teaspoon of black pepper with meals aids in digestion.
One has nothing to do with the other, he just wanted to stop you from nagging him lol =)
I think he was spinning you a story that had no truth to it.
Pepper will not cancel out salt. Only add a different taste. You are right, he is wrong....again.